In my experience you don’t generate ideas — you beg, borrow, and steal them. Sounds cynical. It isn’t…. By developing the ability to see inspiration everywhere and to use that inspiration, regardless of its source, to influence your own work, you make yet another “invisible” — idea/inspiration — visible.

-Hillman Curtis

Here Cameron Moll has offered some insights on why Good Designers Copy and Great Designers Steal.

Enjoy

LAIE, Hawaii 15 December 2007 Two hundred graduating students at Brigham Young University-Hawaii were urged today to use the Internet — including blogs and other forms of “new media” — to contribute to a national conversation about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Elder M. Russell Ballard, an apostle in the Church, told the mostly Mormon student body that conversations about the Church would take place whether or not Church members decided to participate in them… read more

You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it.

~The Inmates are Running the Asylum

Architects and Engineers

Why Metrics?

Primary goals of most commerce driven web sites:
1- High Traffic Loads (Product Exposure) - Products introduced virtually and sold via brick and mortar
2- Sales from High Traffic Loads -

Metrics are very very important for website success- Metrics can be viewed using analytics software such as google.com/analytics (Free

1. Who comes to our site
2. How long do they visit
3. What pages are hit the most
4. At what point do they leave the site
5. What software are they using
6. What is their internet connection

Architecture is based on a specific audience, your customer
Interaction Designs are created based on user behaviors and needs this includes,
The Task Analysis of users
The Interactions necassary to complete the tasks of the site

Poorly designed products are the way they are because more effort is placed on engineering the thing that actually designing it.
(Book Reference,- Dont Make me Think ) Is your site a billboard, cause your users are browsing at 80 MPH.

Your site might work, but your engineers are the only ones that can navigate it well enough to use it.

Engineering is based on making a site function.
Here is a good design contrast site
http://www.noideasbutinthings.com

here are some bad examples of poor interaction design
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/10-worst-web-pages-featured-on-web-pages-that-suck-in-2006.html

here are some good examples
http://www.cssremix.com/

Posted by Chuck on January 22nd, 2007 via MacVoices #718

“Do you love your iPod, but keep getting tangled up in the earbud cords? Sonny and Michael Baird of TuneTether have the solution. Their simple product keeps your earbuds where they belong: around your neck and not on the ground where they can become damaged or create a tripping hazard. A simple, elegant solution for those who are active when using their iPod, Sonny and Michael explain where they got the idea and how they were engaging in guerilla marketing on the Macworld Conference & Expo show floor.” MacVoices #718

We had some interviews with some awesome editors and productions people. Here is one from MovableBeast.com Just about everyone on the Macworld editing team received a TuneTether including Dan Frakes, the senior editor. Just about everyone of the Apple iPod consultants Have a TuneTether along with Steve Jobs’ Personal photographer. She came right up to us and wanted her Tunes to be Tethered.

We also interviewed several of the Expo attendees to get there reactions on the product. It was great!!!

The TuneTether was a great success. Robin Williams even got one! check it out.

Also there were some great media people there. We met with most of the Macworld magazine editing staff as well as several PR people from Apple, B&H photo, and more. We met Steve Jobs’ personal photographer as well as several excited consumers. Many were excited about the iphone and the apple TV releases but i was mostly excited about the first release of a Mac tablet called ModBook.

Right now TuneTether.com is offering a buy one get one free use the coupon code “MIGUEL” add 2 TuneTether’s to your cart and enter the coupon code. Then you will get one free!!

So I make my wife buy me these chickens lately because: #1 They are Cheap #2 They Taste good… I usually pick one of these puppies up by the left drumstick and gnaw on it for a few days… then i throw the chewed up carcase in the trash. What a wonderful way to prepare for our trip to San Jose. We are going to see my brother Sonny and his wife Jodi and their fam.

I thought I would actually use this weblog to fullfill its purpose… logging on the web. Yes that is where the name blog came from… I laugh when i think that i made this because i have nothing interesting to write about, as you can already percieve if you have made it this far down the page.

Anyway. I played a little Counter-Strike on my Mac/PC and now i am ripping King Kong and putting it on the 5G iPod.. yahoo for apple and their geniusness.. now me and the wifey can watch movies the whole 12 hour trip. i guess we are doing this drive for 3 hours switch thing… i hope i dont have to drive through Nevada.

I will keep all of you posted on what exciting things may hav occurred each day if possible.

Schooooooooool’s Out For Summa! Yippity Skippity!

Nice jib arm, well designed, and it allows tilting of the camera.
http://www.jorenclark.com/whitepapers/jibarm.html

Snodart’s excellent tutorials complete with pictures and excellent discussion of the homemade jib.
http://snodart.com/hbe_jib.php

Heavy Duty with lots of instructions and pictures.
http://www.divergentthinking.net/Let…e/News/DIY.htm

Nice looking Jib Arm rig
http://www.bealecorner.com/trv900/jib/jib.html

Cool but simple Speed-Rail jib arm.
http://www.freyerlighting.com/WebSit…rSpeedJib.html

Bob Vento’s jib arm, simply and very professional.
http://www.geocities.com/bobvento/jib/jib.html

Another crane with very detailed instructions and images. Heavy duty.
http://www.pana3ccduser.com/article….r-the-Panasoni

Cody Deegan’s Jib Plans with VERY VERY DETAILED .pdf files! Exact instructions with photos and drawings.
http://www.codydeegan.com/jib.html

Dave’s Crane. It’s .zip file with a lot of BMP images inside with detailed drawings.
http://homebuiltstabilizers.com/DIYp…ngassembly.zip

A great .doc file instructional tutorial, with very detailed diagrams and instructions. By http://www.frightnightproductions.com
http://homebuiltstabilizers.com/Plans/Jib.zip

DOLLIES

Very simple but easy to build dolly with skateboard wheels.
http://www.jorenclark.com/whitepapers/dolly.html

Another excellent Snodart picture tutorial! Make a dolly, this time with smoother rollerblade wheels!
http://snodart.com/hbe_dolly.php

Nice dolly with simple diagrams and easy instructions!
http://www.angelfire.com/movies/nobudgetsfx/dolly.html

The oringal $14 skate sheel dolly tutorial
http://www.rondexter.com/professiona…el_dollies.htm

Very, VERY simply PVC dolly with good instructions and photos.
http://www.softweigh.com/video/diy.html

Another home made dolly, this time using rollerblade wheels. A simple nice design.
Part 1 (photos): http://homebuiltstabilizers.com/Memb…dollypart1.mht
Part 2 (instructions and photos): http://homebuiltstabilizers.com/Memb…dollypart2.mht

A great .doc file instructional tutorial, with very detailed diagrams and instructions. By http://www.frightnightproductions.com
http://homebuiltstabilizers.com/Plans/Dolly.zip

STABILIZERS/Steadicams

$14 Steadicam for the poor man in us all. GREAT article with even some useful addons. Very detailed step by step instructions with photos.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/

Snodart’s excellent Stabilizer tutorial. Photos and good ideas are all present.
http://snodart.com/hbe_steady.php

Detailed Stabilizer with photos. Nice design.
http://www.bealecorner.com/trv900/steady/steady.html

Probably the simplest stabilizer explanation/tutorial.
http://www.bohlen.com.au/steadycam.htm

Simple stabilizer with instructions and a few photos. Simple design.
http://www.softweigh.com/video/diy.html

Building a steadycam with anything heavy, save yourself money!
http://www.jorenclark.com/whitepapers/steadicam.html

A great .doc file instructional tutorial, with very detailed diagrams and instructions. By http://www.frightnightproductions.com
http://homebuiltstabilizers.com/Plans/Glidecam.zip

BLUESCREEN/GREENSCREEN

Make a portable blue/greenscreen with PVC and cloth, for under $50! Nice design!
http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/…eenscreen.html

Build a large greenscreen in your home (non-portable) for under $30.
http://www.jushhome.com/Bluescreen/Bluescreen.html

Other

Make your own Tripod! Snodart has a great tutorial on building your own tripod with some metal work.
http://snodart.com/hbe_dolly.php

A backpack cam that floats the camera in front of you and allows for prolonger camera work without tiring.
http://homebuiltstabilizers.com/DIYp…KPACKMOUNT.doc

A Snorri Cam, that resembles what was done in Requiem for a Dream or Pi. Damn simple!
http://veilleuxfilms.com/snorri.html

So yahoo for stikipad… As I was researching new Rich Internet Application ideas, i came across this seemingly amazing RIA. It seems to be alot like basecamp. It allows you to create a wiki and include other Authors. Its kind of like a developmental weblog that allows you to upload files, post writeboards, images and other things and of course, with its wiki-esque commenting capabilites, others can post comments and create a depth of field for your topic. Browse and enjoy.

Finally, after all of the anticipation, I have made my first post. Whoopty Do. OK, so I have started learning about remote scripting. It seems very interesting.

I have recently read this helpful article from sitepoint.com about AJAX. What a wonderful way to dynamically load content into your browser, just like desktop application.As I messed around with some code, including the popular javascript, “Prototype” this included, Javascript, PHP, HTML. Where the HTML holds Forms that point to the .php script. This PHP script calls a script for the input of the form. It then Dynamically loads this information from the form to the HTML page via javascript and PHP. There is a special AJAX.js that you place functions that tell the php to write to the HTML dynamically. See the AJAX example here or download the sourcecode here

The method to this madness has been initiated by a coop work experience that is being corelated with UVSC and my place of employment. Rivetal.comThis article from sitepoint was really helpful to my understanding of AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML). Check it out here

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