journal entry 5; june 25, 2008

I'm terribly sorry this is being posted so late. I have been so wrapped up in my other class project that I completely let time slip away.

It is time that i choose. Do I sacrifice design for purpose? I keep going back to the fact that I know I want it to look and act a particular way, but I also am fighting the fact that there is so much information I'm trying to compile into these pages. What would Norman do? I was struck today by a TV show I had tivo'd. While trying to jam my turkey and swiss sammy down and get back tot the computer to help my team for 6170, I caught up on a show called Project Runway. It was last season's group. The final 3 designers were speaking with their mentor, Tim Gunn, about their designs and the work they had done while they had been away from the show (they go back to their homes for 6 months to create a complete collection of fashion clothes to show at Fashion Week in NYC). He mentioned to one of the designers to NOT over think things, but to always have an editing eye on. I wish I had pen and paper at that point. It was exactly what I need to with my website....don't overthing, and if I have to edit it down and make it smaller, while keeping the quality of the pages decent then that's what I'll do. I wish for my site to be complete of course, but at the sake of doing it 1/2 a**ed I'd rather not have it jammed full of info.

OH OH I forgot to tell!! I'm making a quiz in Flash...I am doing a short tutorial online that I found, and I hope it'll work, b/c the hot potatoes definitely doesn't do what I am seeing for the quiz.

I went to Barnes and Noble last night....there are millions of books on designing a website. Man, if I had only known back in the day I would have jumped on board earlier and then written a book about it....they're making a mint out there--especially the "for Dummies" people...MY WORD!

Alright, I haven't done a lot of work on the page today, so I have to make this a bit short.

Things to Do:
1. work
2. sleep
3. work some more
4. get the house painted :(
5. Read some more articles about design and find out who ever sacrifices design for content....i doubt it happens often...maybe if someone has to turn in a paper they might, but websites shouldn't look like a word processor page.

Ta-ta

References:

1. Norman, D. 2004. Emotional design: Presentation made at the 2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference. [podcast] Available: http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail69.html