Five years ago, right around this time of year, I was convinced I made the biggest mistake of my life. I had spent the summer working as a gear technician for a windsurfing shop in Hood River, Oregon, which meant I spent ten hours a day out in the blazing sun and nuking wind, building […]
Author Archives: Dane
What’s all this, then?
November 1, 2008 – 10:10 am
I came into this program thinking I had a pretty good understanding of what design is. Design isn’t just the way a product or interface looks, of course, but how it works. Design isn’t just about efficiency or economy of motion, but the way an object makes a user feel when using it. Design is […]
Hold onto your Awesome
October 1, 2008 – 10:00 am
To those who are wondering, no. I am not growing a beard. I am raising a beard. There is a distinct difference between the two actions, in that one suggests passivity, while the other implies a much more active and deliberate process. Remember, design is deliberate. Raising a beard is not just the absence of […]
Elvis Legs
September 15, 2008 – 10:00 am
In the interest of full disclosure, before I became a big-shot graduate student I was something of a dirtbag. I would guide wilderness trips, eat roots and berries, and participate in all sorts of dirtbag activities like frisbee, rock climbing and hacky sack. Indeed, I would also burn Nag Champa, wear hemp necklaces, and buy […]
Drinking from the Firehose
September 5, 2008 – 10:00 am
As our first week draws to a close I have realized, quite jarringly, that my existing systems for task and information management are dreadfully inadequate for dealing with this kind of volume. I’ve worked as a professional web designer and developer for five years, in small companies at various levels of authority, and even spent […]
Spaces
August 29, 2008 – 8:19 am
Indiana University is as beautiful as all get-out, and I’m as stoked as hell to be here. This morning I meandered through a campus shrouded in fog, weaving between beautiful limestone buildings and cool, soothing forests. Tiny streams flow across campus, cutting through the soft soil and spilling over the hard layers of native limestone […]
Semper Chick-fil-A
August 23, 2008 – 10:13 pm
This, my friends, is Indiana. I could say something, except that Kate has already said it better.
Captain Morgan and his spiced piss can go to hell.
August 10, 2008 – 10:24 am
Contrary to your claims, regional liquor rep, I believe whether or not people come to my party will be determined more by whether or not they think I’m a cock, than by what brand of liquor I’m serving.
Yes, everything is an interface problem.
August 9, 2008 – 11:42 am
Smoke alarms should be rebranded as “this device is broken and needs to be replaced” alarms, to better reflect their most frequent use case.
OCD Backups for the ADHD
August 8, 2008 – 8:42 pm
The other day my friend Jake inquired as to what my backup configuration looks like, as he wants to do a better job protecting his data. After replying I realized that other people might benefit from the same knowledge, and so I whipped something together for ya’ll. By no means do I claim to be […]
