Thoughts about design and technology.

The GTD method is basically a method for increasing personal organization. To me it meant somewhat more than that as it taught me about how just by changing my thinking about something could lead to really powerful results. If you’re not familiar with the book “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity“, or its […]

In the last couple of years, I’ve gotten used to subscribing to blogs as my main source of news and information. Mix that with listening to most of my music through a portable player and it’s gotten me thinking about how I consume media.
My primary music player is a Zune, both as a portable device […]

While going through some of the presentations given at this year’s Mix Conference from Microsoft, I realized that while there was a good amount of effort put into showing how Microsoft is paying attention to the interactive user experience, the main focus seemed to be on advertising and what tools Microsoft provides for advertisers for […]

“No one is podcasting.”
— Old Media (Newspapers)
“Everyone is podcasting.”
— New Media (Web, generally tech geeks)
Well, both sides are right. The confusion seems to be with the perception of what podcasting is. Podcasting is audio or video content recieved through a subscription, or feed, and then synced, or downloaded, to an iPod.
Now, if you’re like me, […]

Macromedia Adobe Flash continues to bring a lot to the web in form of interactivity and animation, which seems to be in demand more and more recently. Since I started using Flash, the ability that attracted me most was the use of animation.
We’ve seen all kinds of animation on the web done in Flash. Online […]

Did you know that movies originally started out in the same format as the television? But after a short time, they went to being filmed in the widescreen format we are used to today. This was due to a combination of being a more creative way to film and better for presenting to a theater […]

When it comes to designing for the web or any type of on-screen presentation, the design is based on the format you have to work with. This applies to any medium really, but has been more difficult for the computer since it’s always changing.
The internet is causing even more format changes as the website goes […]

Some may say that these last couple of years have been rather slow for technology improvements. I would disagree. For years new hardware for the desktop computer has been developed. Since computers have come to the desktop, the challenge was always to develop hardware powerful enough to keep up with the software we wanted to […]

This will start out as a rant of my recent movie-going incident, but will lead to something I’ve felt strongly about for a while now.
Last weekend, when going to see King Kong with my family and a couple of friends at the local Harkins theaters, our ‘movie experience’ was less than enjoyable when the sound […]

During the second meeting of Refresh Phoenix, a local community of designers and developers, it occurred to me that there is a noticable devide between (formerly Macromedia) Flash fans and (don’t call it) AJAX fans. While both seem to be using the technologies for similar purposes, each group sticks by their prefered method.
While it may […]