functional design
Landing on Planet Drupal (or trying to)
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008It’s been just almost a year since I focused my professional attention onto usability for web applications and launched this web site. I’ve known for about eleven-and-a-half months that, as a hybrid between a blog and a business web site, this site has significant issues. My goal was to see if I could mix my […]
Demand More
Saturday, March 29th, 2008What is a software application?
When we think of a software application, most of us will conjure up the image of some sort of user interface splashed across a computer screen. As far as most of us are concerned, whatever is on the screen is the software. Period.
Engineers will tend to look at it […]
The Meaning of Art, The Purpose of Technology
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008As a software artist I am a beast with two heads. I am an artist by compulsion and I am a software designer/engineer both by choice and sheer determination to understand technology. Most people tend to address one head or the other, depending upon whether they meet me first as an artist or as an […]
An Examination of Aesthetic Intents
Monday, August 13th, 2007My friend Bill Sweetman has just concluded a gig at a large advertising agency and one of his last undertakings there was a recently launched web project entitled ‘Aesthetic Intent: Where There’s Passion, There’s Beauty’. Bill is a very creative guy who knows a lot about aesthetics and how to work with the web as […]
An Unframed Incidental Art Tour
Thursday, July 26th, 2007For a few weeks now my left brain has been absorbed in the details of implementing a client’s web site. Being wedded to a tight deadline and having already done all the loose, creative design stuff, I’m now focused almost exclusively on solving the challenges of writing computer code in what is still a new […]
Killer Signs of Ambiguity
Sunday, July 1st, 2007What is the meaning of this sign?
Let me ask you again. What was the meaning that you first perceived? Did that meaning change soon after?
The chances are that you first saw a visual message ‘STOP’ and then, upon reflection, decoded the sign to mean ‘GO’. Perhaps you might even see this image as an […]