hyalineskies

We constantly look toward our books of things of what not to do when designing interactions with people; we incessantly read how to make our users more passionate and addicted to our material. In the end, what we as humans really seem to care about isn’t how close we adhere to theory and standards: instead, we just care about emotion.

You won’t find an April Fools’ Joke here on hyalineskies this year. Here’s why.

In the same week, negative publicity and personal issues have slammed the blogs of prominent A- and B-listers such as Kathy Sierra, Chris Locke, Molly Holzschlag and Andy Clarke. What many of those in the blogosphere don’t seem to realise is that we are psychologically building ourselves into the same realm as that of real celebrities, and there are many more people following your every move than you would think.

As I started development of the new hyalineskies codebase this weekend, I found a total lack of standards in WordPress theme development. I needed a robust, extremely flexible framework with which to base my newest theme and all of my themes thereafter; after some investigation, I found that that meant developing something much bigger than I had expected.

I’ve received too many comments lately asking for my opinion on VIRB°, a new social network by design-oriented Unborn Media. While Virb’s aesthetics are certainly nice, history has proven that usability and aesthetic aren’t the primary reasons for social network adoption. I’ll play the skeptic on this one.