Road weary and introspective
As everyone ran to export and delete their Twitter data in waves when Apartheid Clyde came to town, I sat back and watched with a chuckle from my cozy perch on my Mastodon instance. You see, I’d already done all that months ago, as the site had continued to fester into a sad pile of…
Wherein our protagonist chooses their top picks in the past year of music listening and epic album buying. Sadly, in the last few years my only blog posts have been these, the yearly lists. Even now, I’m only writing this on 31 Dec 2022, knowing full well I likely won’t publish this before midnight. But…
Somehow it’s been a year since I posted on here, and for exactly the same reason: it’s year end music list time. Yes, your social feeds were flooded for a day or two with the autogenerated Spotify wrap-up lists and metrics. That started about a month before the end of the year because, well, traditionally…
Wherein I admit I only really got by because of music.
I’ve made several starts and stops at microblogging. Problems w/app integrations, etc. But I will try again because I’m sick of “free” social networks.
When I moved to Texas 4 years ago, it was to be closer to my wife’s family, given my health had hit another setback. After 8 years in Seattle, I knew I would have to adjust to some big changes. I mean, the usual summer high temperature in Seattle is roughly the overnight low in…
Creating accessible color contrast A while back, I wrote about how color blindness can affect the implied meaning in our usage of color. The use of stoplight colors for status is less meaningful if your eyes aren’t helping you distinguish between red and green. We got around this problem through the use of meaningful shapes…
When discussing design, color is often treated as a purely emotional or psychological aspect, and it can be hard to quantify. There are a few places where certain uses of color convey meaning in an easily understood way. A group of colors almost universally understood are Stoplight or Traffic Signal colors. My daughter would sing…
(This article was written for the Bazaarvoice User Experience newsletter, b:focused. Cover Photo by Kelly Sikkema.) One of the biggest hurdles to overcome when beginning to design and develop inclusive products and services is the fear that including everyone is an impossible task. There are so many things people to consider that it can feel insurmountable. Changing…
Testing microblogging.
