How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Design

how often is it that you’re plugging away at a design only to realize you aren’t enjoying the work whatsoever? commonly friends ask me why i’m not making webpages on the side for extra money. the answer is two-fold: first of all, think about what you do 8 hours a day, 5 days a [...]

design psychology

The left-to-right and top-to-bottom real estate that fills the browser window on a computer monitor is a very delicate and treacherous space. While this idea rings true in a host of contexts, it is especially true for web designers and the individuals and companies that hire them.
The task of designing a web page and/or [...]

philosphy was.

The change in thought, science, and technology since the time of the ancient thinkers has been enormous; however, there remain many aspects of ancient Grecian technology that cannot yet be reproduced. In areas of pure intellect, where only power of the mind has any effect, we still lag behind, and designs and plans sketched on [...]

usable content

Much of my recent work has been spent right in the center of where strategy and tactics meet. I’m smack dab in the middle of a grey area surrounded by branding, content development, information organization, usability and design.
One of the things I’ve spent much of my time working with is content, mainly the written variety. [...]

instantaneous meaninglessness

Informationalism places the highest value on contemporary culture, current events, and immediate action. In cyberculture, we are increasingly obsessed with documenting the present rather than understanding the human condition, particularly our moral situation. Uninterested in the hard work of nurturing virtuous character, we hope for technological solutions to our moral problems….
Cyberculture, for instance, [...]