Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
More learning from Las Vegas
1. The strip is designed to keep you inside casinos. Inside my hotel (the Flamingo, because we information architects like to kick it old-school), every path you can take is designed to take you through or into a casino. The rooms don’t even have those terrible hotel-room coffee makers, which I presume is to get […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Personal, Interface design, Uncategorized by Misha
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Oooh, Las Vegas, ain’t no place for a poor boy like me
If I had to choose, I don’t think my first viewing of the Las Vegas strip would have been jet-lagged and stomach-achey from a turbulent flight. Still, I can’t imagine it wouldn’t have been overwhelming anyway. And this from a woman who functions at her best in New York.
The Bellagio water spectacle, so beautifully captured […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Society, Personal, Interface design by Misha
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Bulletproof Boss
Our office hosted a discussion on designing for the body tonight , featuring the founders and presidents of two design companies — one that makes sex toys, one that makes body armor. It was an interesting discussion; the similarities of the stories of starting the businesses and the design challenges they faced was actually […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Product design, Technology by Misha
Monday, March 12th, 2007
New Yorker design non-mystery solved
My flashback to the old Lingua Franca site on first laying eyes on the new New Yorker site now makes even more sense — I discovered, via Emdashes, that both were designed by the same people.
Though it’s amazing how much more design you can get out of a 1024 screen and a Condé Nast […]
No Comments » - Posted in Interface design by Misha
Monday, March 12th, 2007
Twitter: the present of presence
So the first big news out of SXSW Interactive this year seems to be that Twitter has hit some sort of adoption tipping point: In Ross Mayfield’s phrase, it’s “tipped the tuna.”
Twitter is a presence publisher: it asks you “what are you doing now?” and you tell it. It, in turn, tells your friends, […]
No Comments » - Posted in Life online, Technology, Uncategorized by Misha
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Design flashback
I am one of maybe five people in the entire world, if that, who looked at the new New Yorker site and had a flashback to the navigational structure of this site. But that’s only to be expected.
(Thesis: there are interface design paradigms that speak deeply to lit geeks. Discuss.)
3 Comments » - Posted in Interface design, Uncategorized by Misha
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Buffy turns ten
Ten years ago today, the first episode of a not particularly promising TV show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired on a second-rate network. We all know how that worked out.
Buffy had a tremendous influence on pop culture, is an acknowledged inspiration for shows ranging from Alias to Grey’s Anatomy, and perhaps most importantly […]
