If you are a designer, a real jerk, and in need of employment, have I got the perfect opportunity for you! (Plus you get to work on Jupiter!)
“ Simplifying user interfaces may sound like a mechanical task, but what lies beneath the surface of user interface design? The answer is simple: users. And what do users want? What makes them all warm and fuzzy? How do you deliver what they want so that they don’t even notice how they are consuming information? ”
I set a goal for myself a couple of months ago to keep a daily journal. With the advent of blogs, journal software, moleskines and the like, you’d think that would be an easy goal to achieve. What none of those things can provide is the actual motivation to write. That comes from the inside and can’t be purchased. What I am now trying to find is the motivation to actually use one (or all) of those items to keep a record of important events in my life on a more consistent timeline. Right now I am on a write-once-every-two-years schedule and I am missing a lot of stuff.
…but I did finish the piece I mentioned a couple of months ago. I think it turned out pretty good. The funny thing is that I did exactly what I said I was going to do, and that’s stew on it the whole time and finish the night before the deadline. It is slated to appear on tech.lds.org on June 2nd. You’ll have to let me know what you think.
I love the innovative thinking that goes into a design like this. This is probably one of the coolest houses that has ever been built.
Yet I have been asked to contribute to a tech blog at my place of employ. I have almost two months to put my thoughts down in pixels and I am terrified. But, that is a good thing. I have been reading a great book and just finished a section that repeated something I heard from a co-worker a few weeks ago…we do our best work and are the most creative when we are right on the edge of chaos. Not knowing where you are headed allows for creativity because of the lack of rigidity. Those are two diametrically opposed concepts. So, I can take my terror and go with it, knowing that as I stew and write and stew and rewrite, I will be able to pull something great out of this melon of mine that will hopefully be of some value to someone. Even if that someone is just me.
