the density of space

Announcing my new design and strategy consultancy.

On moving to New York, collaboration and shipping.

I’m full-time with Urbanscale!

On polish, slogging and ePub.

After something of a hiatus.

On launching When Comes What Darkly Thieves.

Epic week.

Pulled in many different directions.

On prerequisites, continuity & focus.

After a brief hiatus.

Consolidation & wireframes.

Mistakes. On QA and the value of automated testing.

I had to check my to-do list for this one.

Simple tools do not always simplify the task at hand.

On deploying a major refactor and cheating in iOS.

Some of the scariest networked interventions into the city are related to advertising.

A Big Cartel feature launch & the design of interactive children’s books.

Getting together in Salt Lake City.

Progress is in only one direction—forward.

Unit testing, name changes & travel plans.

What if we turned giving directions into a game?

“Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.”
— Alasdair Gray

“As generative art leaves behind a childhood full of fractal toys among Lindenmayer trees, and reaches, if not maturity, at least some kind of confident youth, I regard it as its biggest challenge to find aesthetic venues that are not just uncritical imitation of art as we know it, nor imitation of nature for the sake of it. Venues that are, if you allow me, not too human, and not too inhuman, but a path open only by the collaboration between a person and an automated system: a really hybrid creature, an aesthetic chimera.”
— Leonardo Solaas

“Reduce the volume, Increase the quality and density”
— Fumito Ueda

Perhaps the roughness in our work is beneath the surface.

We need to bring all of our content into one space, a space where we can draw inferences, create links and allow what we’ve made to better inform what we are doing now.

How do we make group software for groups that already exist?

What if you want individual entries to remain eminently accessible as resources to visitors who may not be (and may never become) regular followers of your blog?

Relationships are about progressively refining our ability to see and act on those millions of decision points that either bring us closer together or push us further apart. It’s all about resolution. As you grow together, the decision points grow finer and finer. There is no maximum resolution, no bottom to the recursion.

What if the laws of physics were a local phenomenon, transmitted from place to place, carried by people in the way they view the world?

Seven or so rules for collaborating professionally and still staying friends.

Minimize decisions through effective defaults.

Came across a video of Steve Jobs demoing NeXTSTEP 3 (including Interface Builder) at KATI.

Seams are opportunities.

Momus has a great “postmodern narrative analysis” of Sakaki’s dream in the New Year’s episode of Azumanga Daioh.

I want to create living structure in the world.

Articulated longing, lost dreams.

Each act suggests an action, a continuity, a flowing into.