3rd
November
2000
“Groove is an open, real-time, peer-to-peer communication platform. Ray Ozzie, inventor of Groove, calls it ‘a platform for person-to-person-to-person collaboration with the spontaneity of e-mail that does not rely on larger, central computers, as Notes and other collaborative software do.’ Groove is all over the news these days. Some articles have praised the new ‘platform,’ but there are others that dismiss it as a new fad. Our task is to deconstruct Groove and explore its design for e-learning solutions.”
posted in Communications | Permalink |
3rd
November
2000
“Hello, my name is Hillman Curtis. I believe the most attractive quality the web has to offer is its propensity for constant change. I believe the web is defined by a collective intelligence and cannot be dictated by any one person, group or set of ideas.”
posted in Flash | Permalink |
3rd
November
2000
“Early this summer, the AIGA chapter presidents’ e-mail list generated a vigorous discussion on the pros and cons of graphic design competitions, speculative work, and pro bono work. Since this issue is a perennial one that still inspires such passionate responses, including personal experiences of designers who feel compelled to learn yet once more why they disapprove of ’spec’ work, we are sharing some of the exchange.”
posted in Business of design | Permalink |
3rd
November
2000
“As designers, I often think that we have a design daemon (designd) controlling our creative impulses. When my designd goes to work, I can’t rest until I have carried out an idea to its conclusion. I refer to this process as ‘exorcising designd.’ My latest exorcism took the form of an experiment in separating content from presentation, resulting in several new designs for my personal site. Rather than simply upload a static redesign, I listened to my daemon, and the result was a series of user-customizable ’skins’ for my blog. In this article, I’ll explain how I did it, why I did it, and what it taught me about the future of the web.”
posted in Web design | Permalink |
3rd
November
2000
“I recently saw Chris Edwards of Art Technology Group present a nice idea he calls ’sketchy thingies.’ Apparently it’s common practice at ATG, and I think it’s about to become a common practice of my own. Just to demonstrate the idea, I drew a sketch of www.commarts.com on a piece of vellum (transluscent paper) and scanned it. By tinkering with Dreamweaver, I was able to make the sketch interactive. I drew separate navigation labels with highlight boxes around them, then quickly cut up the scans so I could make rollovers…”
posted in Web design | Permalink |
