Archive for the ‘Perception’ Category

Feverish

By Michael + October 1st, 2008

One hundred and four point one. That’s what the electronic thermometer reads. The first thought through my head is, am I going to die? Unless heaven is an endless coffee shop hop with daily blog entries then I’m still here. I’m still alive which will be the theme of this article.
The human body is [...]

I am the Terminator

By Michael + September 30th, 2008

I am the terminator. I am the embodiment of cool and collected. I guess that’s what Daft Punk does to me. Want to see me turn into a blubbering mess? Put some Damien Rice on or Death Cab for Cutie. Need that extra zip in the morning play me Le Tigre. I am a creature [...]

Design for Humans

By Michael + September 26th, 2008

If you read this article you’ll be a better designer/developer/producer because it’s going to be a swift kick to your groin. There’s a reason why 99% of all of the shit out there fails. It’s because somewhere in the design process common sense gets thrown out the window. I know you’re really good at engineering [...]

Social Surfing

By Michael + September 25th, 2008

Imagine for a moment that surfing the web is like a string. It spans a great distance into the horizon in front of you and behind. Now imagine that every time you visit a website a knot forms on the string. Sometimes these sites only hold your interest for a moment and other times you [...]

Emergence

By Michael + September 19th, 2008

Human’s have an uncanny ability. Drawing information in we interpret our observations. Not only do we observe but we compartmentalize. This is in a sense what makes us Human. Compartmentalization leads to comprehension and you have compounded logic. There is a chair in the room, there is a banana tied to a string on the [...]

Burn Your Boxes and Arrows!

By Michael + September 18th, 2008

There’s an elephant in the room. I’m going to call it out, we have wicked problems in the interaction design field. A discipline that was birthed to cultivate innovation in user experience is stuck in it’s post modern ways. Want to fix it? Stop using esoteric buzz words and designing with hot keyed boxes and [...]

Perception of Possibility

By Michael + September 11th, 2008

Yesterday morning at one A.M. I along with much of the nerd world witnessed the firing of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. It made me think about a lot of things. Most importantly I realized how lucky I am to be alive in this time. If I can survive for another 50 years then [...]

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