It never ceases to amaze me, that the best experience we seem to come up with for feeding a computer, after multi-touch this-and-that and semantic wonderment, and peer2peer, socially syndicated gobble-d-gook, are text fields, radio buttons, check boxes and menus.
My Dad used to say that he had an unparalleled skill at creating errors on “those Web forms” which he didn’t even realize were called forms. (more…)
Listening to conversations between designers and developers is an endless source of amusement. Contributors and visionaries from both camps will always have expectations and frame questions from the view of their own professional specialty.
It gets even better, when a programmer and a designer discuss working Agile methodologies, and gets even better when they have varying appreciations of what exactly agility is. (more…)
So I decided that a new website is in order. Why? Well, the current most recent version of my site was made in 2003, and a lot’s changed since then.
First off, I’m not in the business of providing custom solutions anymore: that site really showed the range of services I had been providing my clients for over a decade and was intended to bring in new clients. As I’m currently employed I’m not really looking for clients, and my focus has narrowed from being a full service integrator to living up at the “Fuzzy Front End” of the development practice, where I start at the strategic planning point and pretty much back off once concepts have been approved.