Pluralists, pioneers and poseurs
It’s pretty obvious at this point that my original vector into the world of blogging — the role of online and offline social networks in technology and our society as a whole — has actually become important, projecting itself to some degree out of the hype surrounding any new technology. Social distribution is something that has been the tried-and-true marketing mantra of many for decades as “word of mouth”; with the increase in awareness of the actual networks at hand (partly responsible due to the popularity of online social networking services and their surrounding buzz,) we have entered a new era where every marketer is thinking “viral” and how social media is the newest way to peddle their wares. Read more…
Previously on hyalineskies…
Designing a web application like a utilitarian typeface
5 months, 3 weeks ago
After reading an interview with a typeface designer on the design of entirely functional sans-serifs, I realised that the three is of typeface design are no different than the things we should be thinking about when developing new web applications from scratch; however, there’s a usability caveat in web application design that complicates things.
