Happy new year!
Happy new year and decade!
What I did when we entered 2010:
- Watched Scrubs.
- Drank Coffee.
- Ate strawberry-vanilla ice cream.
Once again, happy new year and enjoy 2010.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everybody.
I know I am a bit late but I have been busy spending time with my family and something secret, which I would like to talk about, but I can’t.
I hope you are getting ready for new years eve and my birthday in the coming week.
Take care.
Enough
Not everything, all the time, completely, forever. Just enough. Enough to start, finish, or simply maintain.
Merlin Mann over at 43 Folders talks about having just enough. He, and I, believe that most people takes things too far when it comes to checking your email, Twitter et cetera; Merlin also uses a buffet as an example for this, because we usually eat until we drop “dead” from having eaten too much food at these buffets and because we don’t know when to stop.
Trying to read hundreds blogs and following an equal amount of people on Twitter will only make it harder for you to understand (or at least getting the information in to your head) it all; follow blogs and people on Twitter who provide you with what you want, not with what you may want in the future.
Project 52
I stumbled across a new project on Twitter today, thanks Tim, and I instantly liked the idea. The goal with this project is to add new content to your website every week for a full year, thus the name “Project 52”, between the first of January 2010 and the first of January in 2011.
I’m confident that I will be able to update at least once a week with content but I also know that some weeks will be more difficult than others.
Wish me luck.
Panic Blog
You know Panic Inc., makers of excellent Mac software and unpredictable goods? Did you know they now have a blog?
On it you can read all about a new non-software product they (I mean we) are rolling out today: Panic Retro Boxes and Posters. It’s a long story, and since Cabel wrote it, you’ll want to read it.
I love Panic. I love their apps and their goods so this is great news for me.
Panic apps made into old Atari 2600 games, a great idea that turned out to be both retro and beautiful.
Looks like I’ll be getting more Christmas presents for myself.
Usability
A small post on usability and clarity, and why it is important.
You want your visitors to stay and have a browse and possibly buy your product if you are offering one, but you are making it very hard for the visitor when all they see is flashy graphics or unreadable text that doesn’t make any sense. Clarity and ease of use are merely two things that make your product and your website more desirable, while your graphics confuse the visitors.
I am not telling you to stop using graphics on your website, it is just that I am telling you that too much is too much. Usability decreases with every element that you are adding, and so does your visitors interest.
Design for content’s sake, not design’s sake.
A great quote by Shaun Inman as a result of reading Smashing Magazine’s article on blogazines where design is yet again prioritized and content is, well not neglected but overshadowed by the design.
37signals is one of the companies where usability, clarity et cetera is very prominent; you can show any of their websites and web applications to a technophobe and I guarantee that things will make sense for them.
Focus on what’s important.
Big news overnight is the launch of Square, a mobile app supporting multiple devices that enables anyone to take credit card transactions without the hassle of merchant accounts or complicated fee structures. It’s the brainchild of Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey and with the likes of Buzz Andersen involved, it’s going to be huge. Impeccable website design by Bobby Andersen.
“Neglect.”
Fail to care for properly; not pay proper attention to; fail to do something.
This is what has happened here and I can’t explain my absence. I haven’t been busier than usual, nor have I been sick so I guess I’ve just been lazy. I am not only treating you badly by not writing and sharing what I love, it is also bad for me. As Amine says:
I can’t keep stuff for myself because that is not the way life is meant to be.
Having stuff bottled up inside only fuels aggression and depression, both of which I try to avoid as best I can. Writing and sharing what I think, as I do even by reblogging, feels great and is one of the reasons I keep writing; both on and offline, publicly and privately.
Let me know when I start neglecting everything again.
“Chocolate milk is like pirate milk.”
This book is on my Christmas/birthday wish list. I’ve read a few of the short stories before but I want to have read them all.
My birthday is January 2nd which is why I combine the wish lists. And no; you are never too old to wish for things.
