My new favorite word
Programme. So much better than program. Also because program always reminds me of "pogrom" and nobody wants that.
Here is what I did at work today, a redesign of a section in our poor, mutilated little website:
If you'd like to see how the site would function just click on the picture and you'll be taken to its source on Flickr. I have little digital sticky notes all over the damn thang. "Drift" is a music (or "sonic art" as some of these people like to call it) collection that goes back past 2000.
Also at work, I drank coffee, updated the existing New Media Scotland site, and drew out plans for other websites. I like to draw out the websites on white printer paper with a black Uniball Vision micro-sized pen before I make them. In the case of the redesign for the New Media stuff I also wrote out how I want the site to behave. Justin told me about this method - I think he called it back-programming or blind-programming or something.
Today I will go home and finish a drawing.
Comments
pseudo code? that's what I do when I can't program: "the user clicks this, then the window pops up, the computer asks the user X, then it replies X+Y" - Erik Nelson called that "pseudo code" which is sort of imagining your brain as a computer responding to yourself as the user. It's a machine-based out of body experience!
In terms of web design, I've never really done this, but I think serious web designers will spend time doing flow charts of page layouts and experience. Like: top level -> second level -> detail level - and then draw the links and connections between them.
Either way, any thinking you do about web sites is good for us - your loyal readers! Who enjoy your design here artserf.
Posted by: Justin | June 9, 2006 10:32 AM