Is running late…heading into the office now.
This guide notes that HDTVs have much higher resolution, which allows you to get a good, immersive experience at a much closer viewing range than on SDTVs. In other words, you can probably get a bigger HDTV in your room than you’d want an SDTV. This is true. However, Michelle and I learned the hard way when we moved to Seattle that this little rule of thumb totally ignores one key point: most of us HDTV owners still watch a lot of standard-definition TV, too. And standard definition TV, quite frankly, looks like complete hell on a nice, high-res HDTV. The only way to make that experience more tolerable is to back away from the TV. We rearranged our living room to sit farther away and found that our SD channels magically didn’t look like shit anymore. Visit site »
Ben Terrett, a Graphic Designer in London, put together a brilliant presentation about how most of the Really Big Issues™ in our world today are, at the core, design problems. Read this — it’s really good. On a much grander scale, this is what I was talking about when I said tools do not a designer make. It’s think kind of thinking that is what makes one a designer, not knowledge of some software package or W3C spec. At the most basic level, design is communication and design is problem solving. I wish more “web designers” understood this. Visit site »
Roman Leinwather gives our book a really stellar review. Thanks so much, Lewro! Visit site »
Last night, aboard the Washington State Ferry, I was telling Michelle that I felt like if I could live anywhere in Seattle, I’d choose the heart of Belltown, right around the Market (about 15 blocks from where we currently live). Today, that exact area makes a list of America’s Top Ten Neighborhoods. Visit site »