Posted in July 2010

Theme revamp in 5.. 4.. 3..

When I was almost finished with my former blog theme I was caught up in HTML5 and WordPress 3.  So I sadly never finished it, but the new design will be up shortly.

I’ll make due with this minimalist placeholder theme for a few days.

A template for life

A lot of people take time to argue to me that there is no template for life. No one way to live.

This argument is strikingly similar to Wittgenstein trying to persuade us that we don’t exist.

No template for life is a template for life.

A circular argument that only shows that you haven’t thought about it very long. There are actually endless templates for life, thousands of manuals on how to live, all of them true. For a given value of true. And most of them conflicting.

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UX Perception is key

As in all things the truth is very rarely important. The perception something is much more important. In UX design this boils down to what the user feels and thinks about what they are using.

(Talking about the Gamecube controller) the greatest videogame controller ever designed, mainly because it had a really big button on it.
- the RexBox blog

Simplicity was created, not by actually removing buttons, but by showing the user a primary button. Subsequently most design focused on that big green button. How we perceive an object, function or service is a lot more important than how that object, function or service actually works. Most companies get this wrong again and again.

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