I’ve just started a new ‘professional’ blog named Can’t Draw Can’t Code. It is intended to be a place where I talk about stuff specific to the digital product design, especially the field of User Experience. I’m finding as I become more experienced, I feel like to have more to say and I wanted to create a soapbox just for that.
My first post, entitled “UX Horseshit“, has already been blocked from being published on a couple of professional groups on Linkedin.
I wrote a blog post for our Closed Beta community. Click the link above to go there.
I was in San Diego for work this week and got to see this pair of Blackhawks patrol Coronado Beach in San Diego.
These guys missed any kind of target audience by light years.
For past few years, especially since games like Modern Warfare 2 starting making more money than movies like Avatar there’s been a lot of debate around the subject of whether games can be considered art – anyone who plays or makes games knows full well that games are forms of art, but stuffy old art critic circle-jerkers have dismissed games as childish bollocks.
I know games can be art, but can art be games? Click the link for a hilariously sarcastic read.
If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding; when you look out a window, a golf-ball-sized awareness, when you wake up in the morning, a golf-ball-sized wakefulness; and as you go about your day, a golf-ball-sized inner happiness. But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when you look out, more awareness; when you wake up, more wakefulness; as you go about your day, more inner happiness.
David Lynch
I recently discovered Ukiyo-e Heroes through Reddit after seeing a great picture (above) of what was described as ”Sonic the Hedgehog Feudal Japan Style” . Ukiyo-e Heroes is a collaboration between two artists who are linking traditional Japanese storytelling art (Ukiyo-e) which uses old-time woodblock printing methods, to modern day Japanese video games culture such as Mario, Zelda, Starfox, etc.
I just bought Rickshaw Cart to go up on the wall of my Lab.
I’ve noticed since landing in Frankfurt that a lot of shop windows feature the Amanita Muscaria Shroom. I’ve no idea why.
These pictures were taken within a 15 minute time frame on my way home from work.
A few weeks ago I quietly left the UK after a year of nothing much and moved to Frankfurt, Germany to take up a new job.
After I got back to the UK, I took a couple of months to rest and do a bit of remote UX design work which was nice, but after years of the crazy life living in sweaty Asian mega-cities, I found Newcastle to be far too dull. MORE…
The kind of shit companies do to squeeze more money from you, and the shit I absolutely refuse to do as a designer.
Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo.
Here’s a brilliant concept video showing some potential (and creepy) future applications of AR. Watch fullscreen!
