For months I tried to design a new interface for my website. There have been lots of ideas and lots of thoughts. I wanted the old design to became a classic (maybe it did, maybe not) but then I changed my mind since I’m a man that likes to create new things and play with new ideas. One idea I experimented with the new layout is the vertical grid, every text line is vertically aligned between content and sidebar areas.
In today’s world where millions of documents are electronic we need a format that is easy recognizable by most devices and operating systems that we use: Mac OS X, Windows, laptop, desktop, Linux, iPhone, eReaders, etc.
Please, don’t. At least not on social networks like Twitter. Some days ago Eric Schmidt had an interview which is published on ReadWriteWeb and it’s about what web will look like in five years. One of his questions was “We can index real-time info now – but how do we rank it?”.
Over the last year or so, I started collecting album covers and squaring each one for better use in media players like iTunes. The purpose of all this was to build my first web app using Django.
I no longer use Twitter. It seems that I won’t announce earthquakes when they’ll happen again. I removed all the contacts from Flickr, I wanted to keep some, but I didn’t want to discriminate. I will keep using their service. I did the same for the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, connections are more and more worthless online. I want to consume web and participate in conversations in a different way, in a way that doesn’t put me in center of action (attention) or at least I shouldn’t be aware of that. Well, that’s because I’m not that kind of person.
Yesterday evening I went to see Angels & Demons and I didn’t even sleep since then; coming to write this post in the morning. It’s 5:44 AM and it’s a Wednesday. My thoughts are clear like water, if water can be used as a measure of clarity.
There are techniques that aren’t used, from what I know, by today web designers and I want to address them here if it’s possible. I think sometimes we are so eager to come up with something better that we are ending up trying reinventing the wheel when we already have the wheel.
I wanted to make a stop motion movie, but ended up with over 2 minutes of footage filmed on May 11, 2007. Last Sunday I discovered it on a tape. Thinking that I can do something with it, I speed it up 4 times and correct the colors in iMovie ‘09. All the zooming/blurring effects that you’ll see are made with camera itself. Now I will let you enjoy this short clip:
I know I didn’t write for awhile now; well I have been busy with (real) life and other stuff. Yesterday, I received Geronimo!’s latest EP, “A Different Kind of Greatness” from Ben Grigg.
In this post I wanted to write about numbers and their contributions to user interfaces, mostly on today top web applications. But after some thinking, it just didn’t make sense. Numbers can be interpreted in different ways, depending on user perspective.