I've been thinking a little about the design of PowerPoint, WordPress, and WordPress.com lately. More specifically, I've been thinking about Edward Tufte's criticism of how the design of the PowerPoint software is to blame for the Challenger disaster. I saw Edward Tufte speak about information design a few years ago and one of the points … Continue reading The shape of WordPress shapes the web
Tag: space
WordPress Dark Admin concept
I spent a couple evenings a week or so working on an updated design for WordPress. I just wanted to see where I could go with it. There's no current plan to implement it (other than maybe spinning up another MP6 and fiddling with things). It's far from feature complete, but I think it's at a … Continue reading WordPress Dark Admin concept
Garageband space beats
Kinda fun! Usually just mess around with my guitar, but started playing around with other stuff this weekend. https://soundcloud.com/michaelarestad/deep-space