In which DLB takes a moment to extemporize on what you can expect from the Twitter service, and to provide a categorization schema for the users thereof.
I lurked on Twitter for a long time, trying to figure out how best I could use it in the service of DLB. What is it useful for as a "tweeter"? A follower?
As far as I can tell, there are two distinct values that Twitter can provide you as a follower, and unfortunately, they are mututally exclusive. You can either (1) follow everyone you ever encounter and grow yourself a massive reciprocity-driven follower-base, thus boosting your social networking gravitas while subsequently ensuring that you're never going to cut through the fog of uninspired self-promotion-cum-egomania and find good, useful tweeted content, or (2) you can just follow really interesting and awesome people, and get some real content-value out of the service, but sacrifice a "gimme" at boosting your personal PageRank.*
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Paul — Oct 1, 2008
My warm fuzzy for the day:
Hail to the king, baby!
Newly-installed RISD President, John Maeda with newly-enrichened RISD Alumnus, Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy).
Not quite Brad Pitt with Rem Koolhaas, but I am big fan of both of these guys and it makes me smile to see them together in one place.
Check out John's shirt, too. Is that wild, or what?
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Nick — Jun 24, 2008
It's not what design is, but how we approach it that matters.
Reading Paul’s post from Wednesday, I was reminded how much work is performed by the word "design" and how many domains it crosses over. Poynor stakes a claim for greater emphasis on the visual in design, but as Paul wisely points out, a lopsided account of the discipline is unproductive.
Certainly, the way something looks is important, but this isn’t the only criteria for a design. John Maeda writes:
[I]n Japanese there is the word sekkei, which connotes designing a mechanism, system, or technology with rationalized metrics for quality. Dezain, on the other hand, goes beyond an object’s function to how it makes us feel.
This seems to be the right idea. However, such a definition places no limitations on how sekkei or dezain are accomplished or in what proportion. Something that works well can make us feel good; it doesn’t necessarily have to look good. Similarly, as Donald Norman points out, something that looks good can make us think it works well. Both might be considered good designs by their users.
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Nick — May 16, 2008
