30 August 09
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After I started thinking about redesign, I decided to do some research and make my mind on the platform for my updated site. Now behind this old and dusty blog is Textpattern , which is great and easy to use. But it is also somewhat dusty. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of most popular CMS and blogging platforms.
And although Wordpress is great I feel like having something more robust and even more advanced sounds exciting. So after some reading and thinking, I came to conclusion that I will use my favorite Drupal to rebuild the site. I think I should have no problem moving my old content and keeping same urls to new platform and developing some new cool features to entertain my mind and keep my PHP and Drupal skills sharp.
29 August 09
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2009. Almost 2010. Wow. Time goes fast.
Staying busy at work, trying to have small remodeling projects around the house, watching my kids grow I got so busy that completely ignored my site.
But I still have an itch to post some things online here and there. I know that the world has moved on already. Blogging is the thing of the past. Everybody is on twitter now and on Facebook, trying to grow their social graph and express themselves in less than 140 characters.
But as I get older I guess I realize more that some things are here to stay. And although internet is growing like crazy, I feel like it is much more mature now and with maturity comes stability. So some things are going to slow down. Of course it is never going to be as slow as offline world.
Well anyway, I will try to run some updates and see what I can do to upgrade my textpattern installation and may be will even come up with some new design that is worthy of 2010. Let be realistic here the new design probably wont’ launch this year. But then again you never know.
If anybody is still reading this blog ( may be somebody forgot to unsubscribe from rss feed), let me know if you have any ideas and I will be happy to give it good consideration.
Oh yeah, I wasn’t completely silent. I did get an account on twitter. You can find me here – twitter.com/adesigner
24 July 08
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I watched the first episode of “Mad men” show on amc.com after this article from design observer.
I did like it. It was interesting. But I’m somewhat new to the idea of watching TV shows online. And although nice people from AMCtv.com were so kind that they didn’t force on me any advertising, I still felt like time is moving slow. I think it’s not the problem with the movie it is either with me or the whole thing of watching TV on computer screen.
You see I have an old 56 inch big screen set that sits in the corner of my pretty big living room aimed at my couch. I rarely watch TV and if I do it is a leisure activity when I’m so tired that I can’t do anything else. And instead of just lying on a couch I also watch some show.
It is quite annoying that in half an hour the amount of information broadcast is so small especially if you exclude the commercials. Even if you include the commercials it is still small because commercials keep repeating. You almost feel retarded when you are watching TV. But it is no big deal that time flows slow and some stuff gets repeated 5 times in half an hour because I’m just laying there relaxing and my brain is not functioning in full power anyway.
It is different when I’m sitting next to a computer at my desk. I’m wide awake and it feels like work and I want to be productive. The pace is so much different.
May be with time I will get used to the idea. But for now I’m looking for an affordable solution to watch online content on my Tv set while I’m on my couch and there are no computers in visible range.
11 July 08
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Today at work we had some issues with Firefox not opening links in flash file. Links were regular getUrl buttons.
The interesting thing is those links worked fine in IE but nothing happened when you clicked them in Firefox. After some poking around me and my buddy Brian, discovered that the problem is outbound scripting control. The reason is that flash and other media file on yahoo store platform are located on a separate server with a different sub-domain. Adding this parameter to the flash object helps resolving it: param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always”.
I’m not sure why IE had no problems with it. Any ideas?
Read more:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_16494
http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject/browse_thread/thread/181642d2af7f8b51
17 January 08
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Here is a great list of resolutions for many of us for this year. I know it’s late. But anyway. Stop Web pollution.
11 January 08
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It is 2008!
Year of potato.
It is probably going to be year of Gphone
And may be year of Google TV.
I also hope we will see new prominent players in social web and new ways of collaboration between people.
I’m still excited about Adobe’s Flex and Air. Don’t really think that Silverlight will take off.
I’m still fascinated with user experience design and emotional design and looking forward to new ideas and breakthroughs in this field.
I will try to stay current and will make sure I eat a lot of potato this year.
23 August 07
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It is interesting to see how web economy evolves. When you look at it from perspective of developing relationship between different economy agents you notice many similarities with real world economy the way we know it.
Growing number of agents, institutionalization, rising competition even revolutions in the way business is done. What’s interesting is that what took centuries in the real world in internet economy takes years or even months.
Now all the heat is on social value of communication between business agents and between society members. The reason is that our modern society is becoming more and more equal to the internet society as more and more people get involved in this phenomena.
And like in real economy era of mass production mass media and social interaction and control finds reflection online but in much more surprising and interesting ways that we are just starting to realize.
Well anyway, with all the attention on social aspect of web it is worth noting that there is big interest in social design too. More and more companies are starting to pay attention to using masses for adding value to their propositions and for marketing their products and services but the science of social design is very new. Of course there is a lot of research and work done on social interaction in general but working that into creating user interfaces is new for everybody.
I’m really excited about following development of this new dimension of design and would be glad to find interesting resources.
So far this website attracted my attention – bokardo.com
Hopefully I will be able to share more finding in the nearest future.
19 June 07
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Heat is coming to town.
Summer of 2007 is starting to slowly melt my brains. So many things are new and exciting but I can’t even list them in my head.
Once I get out of this mental slow down, ask me about t-shirt design and about touchscreens and i-phone user experience design.
Also if you’re looking for a baby shower gift, make sure you consider a diaper cake . Diaper cake is pretty much a gift basket made from diapers in a form of a cake. They make great gifts since they are practical and very original.
3 April 07
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How about a new word?
E-commerce User Experience = User E-xperience.
Definition:
User E-xperience is perception of a shopper on interaction with a business entity offering products for sale over internet.
This includes use of a website as a main source of information and vehicle for making transaction, delivery of a product, packaging and product quality, service during and after purchase and other aspects of e-commerce.
Technorati tags: ecommerce
experience
usability
design
26 January 07
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In addition to loosing access to it’s own accounts Google can give access to your accounts to other people too.
Not a big deal. Everybody makes mistakes. Oops. Again.
Obviously they reacted pretty fast to that when security experts from Finjan told them about the problem.
Google agreed that they left users’ login and email information absolutely unprotected and publicly available. That information could be easily used to compromise privacy of more than a dozen of users.
Yay Google. That’s what organizing the world’s information is about!
Technorati tags: google