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Archive for December, 2005

Design or Domain Knowledge?

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Many designers define their practice as professional problem solving. I’d like to take that a step further and say that it is decontextualized, generalized, or abstract problem solving. This is because design is not tied to any domain or subject matter.
Ironically though, there is no such thing as a decontextualize, generalized [...]

Updated the UI

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Ok so I was getting a little bored with the default wordpress theme and thought I should spend some time to customize a theme of my own. Hope you like it.
Hopefully I’ll have something a little more interesting to read shortly.

I Dont Normally Care For Quotes, But These Are Pretty Good

Friday, December 9th, 2005

I had a list of quotes here but it started taking up too much room so I’ve put the quotes in its own page to clean things up a bit. You will find the permanent link in the side panel under Pages > Quotes.

Some of my design principles

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

Not sure this is even worth 2 cents, but… In no particular order, and not written in stone:

Less is usually more
Do not make people feel stupid
Design for probable, no possible
People just want to accomplish their goals, and being educated is often not their goal
Design is to help people better accomplish their goals
The more expert, the [...]