November, 2009


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Nov 09

Week 463

Awaiting formal timing and pricing from Danny for Project Bookworm, I’ve made a start on the design because I think I might get a bit busy.

At least that was the plan. Meeting the Project Tuneful client last week was very positive, they seem to have a plan to make buying access to additional content and experiences desirable. It should run across a collection of services, mostly third-party to begin with, and needs a unified, brilliant interface to delight these premium-level customers. I start next week, so in London more often than recently.

On another, er, note I bought a new toy I’m hoping to use in anger for the first time on this next gig. A smart pen, which might just have become a mature technology finally – I remember seeing one at Jones’ place in Helsinki and that was years ago. But then again, that was a tiny slice of nordic future (I seem to remember a Roomba there too!) so these things take time.

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Nov 09

Week 462

(they’re all at it, so I’m going to try it…)

projectmango

Back from @mik3yb’s stag and barely able to think, I completed the last changes to some

reworking of admin interface screens of the Project Mango user research platform and delivered layered photoshop files. A difficult project by being rearranging existing webUI parts into a more usable whole without starting from fundamentals.

Project Bookworm remains about to start, basic outline wireframe and scope being more tightly defined to stop feature creep. To work well, it should be as simple as possible I feel. Extra fluff would be best added when the destination has been proven.

Project Tuneful is working out as UX for a digital boxset prototype, framework and live job. It remains elusive in the background – we shall see.

Which means ducking out of another gig, partly because it was going to be struggle to fit in quality time for the first sub-project and partly because it wasn’t quite pushing my buttons. The scope seems limited at this point, so meaningful changes would be unlikely, more deckchair rearranging.

On the horizon, voting in the Android Developer Competition ends next week – download and vote for Plink Art - it’s brilliant.

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