September 17, 2009
Art curation for the corporate website?
Yesterday I added a digital artwork to my corporate site (see www.virvie.com under 'Destination' and scroll down a little) and actually found it a little hard to do. I see it as decoration of my virtual headquarters, but positioning the piece wasn't all that obvious.
The issue, in comparison, is not the color on the walls or the decorative ornaments on the building, but rather the paintings or sculptures that are added later.
So it's not the 'interior decoration', because that is realized by visual design (determining the colour of the 'curtains and the carpet') and interaction design (positioning the 'table and chairs' so you can sit and walk around comfortably). But, then, what is it? And is it something that can and should be designed for (similar to planning high and wide walls for large paintings in the entrance halls of office buildings)?
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July 28, 2009
Closed source concepts?
It might by a tricky question in the open source era, but is it reasonable to register website concepts? In the TV and movie business they use file-reg.com to register show formats in order to protect and trade them. In case of a TV formats they depict the conception process, the show name, a set sequence of events within the show etc.
In the website business a lot of ideas get 'borrowed', and I wonder if this (still) is the favourable situation...
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June 08, 2009
100% read/write?
When I finally got round to taking a closer look at Google Wave, I was very pleased with the potential that is created by rethinking a common thing like e-mail. I was struck though by the following comment in the presentation (at 11m48s): ".. with Google Wave you spend 100% of your time either reading or writing". Because messages are instantly posted by the system you no longer have to wait for the other person to finish, which is good, but this opposite doesn't sound quite right either. I don't mind being 100% online, and I can't wait to exploit the potential of Google Wave (and a definite farewell to MS Office?), but I would like to see some kind of pleasurable 'idle'-mode built in. Is it possible to have an in-between state of reflection next to reading an writing online?
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May 14, 2009
Room for the non-functional?
I like to incorporate non-functional elements to my webpresence concepts. And by non-functional I mean functionality (not just graphical design) that has no immediate purpose, other than to inspire or provide diversion. I see it like art on a wall and therefore essential. There is a lot of digital art out there already, but hardly ever part of a mainstream (corporate) website. Do you feel there is or should be room for that?
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