Most literal job title ever
via @ajbaird
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The Flat Design Era
When LayerVault 2 launched earlier this spring, we believed that we were taking a risk by pursuing an entirely flat interface.
Well-loved products on the web share a similar design aesthetic, with roughly the same kinds of bevels, inset shadows, and drop shadows. For designers, achieving this level of “lickable” interface is a point of pride. For us, and for a minority of UI designers out there, it feels wrong.
We certainly didn’t invent the flat style but arriving at it was a violent process. We tore through hundreds of revisions (we have the LayerVault timelines to prove it) to potential interfaces before arriving at the answer that now makes us say “of course.” The desk at LayerVault’s original headquarters (my Manhattan apartment) still has the battle scars from objects being slammed down in anger. At one point, while working on a mockup, a MacBook was slammed shut so hard it was nearly unhinged.
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The relationship to handcraft is a beautiful one… You pit your faculties against concrete problems. The victories are concrete, definable, touchable.
— Anaïs Nin on the magic of letterpress and the joy of handcraft – beautiful meditation penned in 1942, but timelier than ever. (via explore-blog)
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I’d rather be in *Grand Haven* sketching on a sand dune. Where would you rather be?
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Learning Hard Things: Learning Curve
You have to want to get good for a while before you truly get better:
What you think it will feel like.
What it’s actually like.
What it felt like.
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Creativity is Subtraction – truth from Austin Kleon, part of his brilliant Newspaper Blackout project.
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Knight News Challenge: ThinkUp →
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Build an information network that connects to today’s social networks, but isn’t centralized and dependent on a company or investors.
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Riding Easy
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Twin Peaks, seen from the 36th floor of One Rincon Hill through the viewfinder of a Pentacon film camera.
