04 9 / 2011
design = metaphor
design = metaphor
A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea
That’s pretty much what we [designers] do every day. Serious metaphoring. Sometimez I just got to let the metaphorz out for the lolz… :)
Original: http://cl.ly/0Q2S1s2e2R4335401L3k/o produced by me @ed_lea inspired by@jeanniehuang via @jeffrey
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03 9 / 2011
Spock not impressed at my spock is not impressed (many more here http://spockisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/ )
17 8 / 2011
Having a bit of fun with Qype job posting for a devops engineer: in the style of an Apple Terminal.
28 6 / 2011
“[Designers] are in the business of selling ideas”
“Unfortunately, an ugly mockup of a brilliant idea is often overlooked for a beautiful mockup of a derivative idea. To compete, you need to learn how to be an adequate graphic designer.” http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/be-a-designer/
So why do investors like Mark Suster totally leave out the designer role from a “dream team” ? http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-would-the-ideal-web-technology-start-up-team-be-composed-of
Although I always wondered whether the true test of a product is to remove the aesthetic and see if people still fall in love with it. I think they made a film about that, Shallow Hal
17 5 / 2011
Interesting interface for a music player. Love it when people get whacky with this shit.
23 4 / 2011
14 4 / 2011
"Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm"
14 4 / 2011
Eat your own dog food
And at last I’m in. I’ve been working on SoopSee for about 18 months and in that time I’ve only supported Etsy and Blogs… neither of which I use. All of my feedback was coming directly from the very awesome SoopSee people. However, that has changed today. SoopSee started to support Dribbble a few days ago, so I threw some of my work up there. I also took the plunge and started this blog.
Anyway, turns out SoopSee is pretty good! Here’s my site www.edlea.com
14 4 / 2011
Push handle on a pull door
I have a few doors myself at home. Most of them are open all the time, but others are opened and closed on a regular basis (like the kitchen). Unsurprisingly, I don’t have the word PULL or PUSH plastered over the handle, I know which way they open. You might say that’s because I live there, well true, but then visitors to my house don’t have a problem either.
(img by rustman)
So why do large public buildings feel the need to label the action of a door? Most of the time this is because they have a push handle on a pull door or vice-versa. Wouldn’t it just be simpler to have a flat pushing panel on a push door and a stick-y out handle on a pull door?
The same applies to user interfaces. If there are devices that people recognise, then don’t be afraid to use them. Don’t try to be different just because you’re bored or want to appear original. I don’t care, I just want to get in or out of the fucking building!
08 4 / 2011
"The auto industry is $1.6 trillion, and you want to fuck with bars and restaurants?! [in reference to location based services]"
