Link(s) vom 29. August 2012

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• Will the Paralympics stop you staring at me? | guardian.co.uk
  „How the Paralympics affects ordinary disabled people like me is going to be fascinating. What I hope is that disability will be normalised – that people will stop staring in the street and that we’ll all be accepted much more for who we are. The worst thing that could happen is that we’re all suddenly treated as being amazing and wonderful and brave (I obviously am, but not everyone is).“

Paul Carter über die Langzeitwirkung der Paralympics.

• CHECK THIS OUT! Discover how Adidas does design | Creative Bloq
  „In this series of videos, designers at Adidas provide insight into how things work behiond the scenes, and even give information on how they bagged their positions at the sporting giant. The site also includes a jobs board, and this site isn’t just about presenting the company’s design credentials, it’s about attracting the best designers to Adidas.“

Für künftige Produktdesigner sicherlich sehr aufschlussreich, für Adidas eine nette Werbung. Auf jeden Fall interessant.

• A 40-Minute Crash Course In Design Thinking
  „In one sequence, Druckrey describes designing a concert poster for the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s performance of a piece by Beethoven. Her first idea was to use the contrast of light and dark, evoking some of the turmoil of the composer’s own life. A large abstracted B, made from a page of notation from one of Beethoven’s manuscripts, dominates the piece visually. Druckrey explains that the idea for the B was there from the start. Next, she used staff lines to create a letter E in the negative space adjacent to it. But she wasn’t sure where to go after that, so she stared. It’s important, she narrates, “to give yourself time to stare at it and see what’s there, what does it want, what’s possible.”“

Wie Design entsteht. (Spoiler: erst denken, dann scribbeln, dann reinzeichnen.)

• Why It’s Important to Sketch Before You Wireframe – UX Movement
  „Sketching sets the tone for the rest of the design process. It’s key in crafting the user experience and communicating it to others. You may think that you don’t need to sketch because you already know exactly what you want and how the interface should look. But when you actually do sketch, you’ll realize that there are more possibilities than you initially thought. And that the path that you were so set on might not work the best. Sketching allows you to entertain all the possibilities of what your interface could become. Where you go from there is completely up to you.“

Ähnlich gilt das natürlich auch für Webdesign. Ich kritzele und zeichne immer erst einmal auf Papier herum, bevor ich mich an den Rechner setze um etwas Größeres zu entwerfen. Ich brauche nicht unbedingt ein Wireframing, mir reicht meine manuelle Skizze meist aus, und da Wireframes meiner Erfahrung nach von vielen Kunden nicht verstanden werden („Hä? Kriegen wir keine Bilder auf der Seite zu sehen? Wieso sind die Buttons alle so krakelig, das machen Sie aber noch schöner, oder?“) und Zeit Geld ist, lasse ich die Wireframephase meist weg. Aber niemals die Sizzenphase, die ist essentiell.

• Sultans of ping: microwaves in restaurants
  „It was billed as a “warm goat’s cheese tart” – an innocuous enough item on a pretty undistinguished menu. But when it eventually arrived, the goat’s cheese was molten lava and the puff pastry sinking into soggy submission. It was clear that my starter had been subjected to an intense encounter with a microwave oven, and it was so unpleasant, and boded so ill for the rest of the meal, that we cancelled our main course order, paid the bill and – there’s no other word for it – flounced. To this day, when my partner and I walk past the restaurant in question, we make a point of saying “ping!” as loudly as we can. We may forgive, but we do not forget.“

Ich habe noch nie eine Mikrowelle besessen oder benutzt, für mich ist das „Tschernobyl in der Küche“, wie Ralf König das in Beach Boys mal so wunderbar gezeichnet hat. Aber dieses „außen geschmolzene Lava, innen kalt und pappig“-Gefühl finde ich auch nicht so erstrebenswert. In Restaurants scheinen die Dinger sich einer gewissen Beliebtheit zu erfreuen; mich stört ja mehr so die Convenienceküche per se, z.B. der Plastiksalat im Block House oder die Kartoffelmehlstäbchen überall, die nicht einmal ansatzweise nach dem schmecken, was in Belgien einst unter pommes frites erfunden wurde. #seufz

Zuletzt aufgelesen: Will the Paralympics stop you staring at me? | guardian.co.uk „How the Paralympics affects ordinary disabled people like me is going to be fascinating. What I hope is...