Organic environment feels like bricolage. Doesn’t mean you can’t adopt a palette of hues.
A deliberately adopted palette of hues can make bricolage look organic and beautiful all the same.
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Phase
Daily writing promptDescribe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.This prompt is double-edged.
Meaning # 1: A phase you would love to live forever in.
Meaning # 2: A phase that sticks to you like mad, love or no love.
Look, am going through a phase that just feels like going on forever. And it’s a mixed bag. That kind that could make anyone shake and shiver.
I’ve figured a design that I’ve had a really hard time getting translated through the hands of tailors into an amazing pair of pants; I desire to turn it into a commercial venture. How many iterations? I’ve lost count. While I’ve learned through all these efforts over the last few years, I feel like I must say goodbye to this phase now and start testing it in the market.
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Don’t make it a machine again
Machines create books.
Machines create websites.
Machines create machines.
Your website can feel like a book or it can feel like a machine. There are easy machines, funny machines, tough machines et al.
To me, ‘website’ feels like a bad name for an information product. But it has been here for so long. Am sure makers of websites, typically, do not even understand the meaning of the expression ‘site’, off-site and on-site notwithstanding.
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Table of Contents
Imagine! Website owners and makers do not want to adopt a simple book-like TABLE OF CONTENTS for their website.
For many machines, you get instruction manuals with such elaborate TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Are websites meant to confuse? To slow the visitor down?
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Where is the research?!
Indians who wear shoes, do not understand their feet.
Indians who wear shoes, believe that the shape of shoes does not impact their body.
Indians who wear pants, do not understand their skin.
Indians who wear pants, believe that the shape of pants does not impact anything other than their look.
You nut, I wear both, shoes and pants. And I am Indian. And I am right here comfortable in both. You don’t know shit.
Your claims are not backed by research. Your claims are not scientific. Become a scientist, research and then I will evaluate your assertions. If your assertions are not in fashion, you can never be scientific enough. Get lost!
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Question Comments
Quora has a fantastic thing: Question Comments.
It means you can comment on the question (on various aspects like wording, framing, quality, etc.) instead of answering it.
Good pastime for me. Hope the feature stays.
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Is the web-page graphucked?
What is a graphic? The thing that can be seen all across the internet? Or graphic is just an adjective and graphics is the real thing? Have I lost it in the first paragraph itself?
But if there is something called an ad, allow me to call something a graphic.
What is a graphic supposed to do? Contrast this with a question on ads. What is an ad supposed to do?
So a graphic is supposed to draw attention? To draw attention from what to what? From the written matter to the graphic matter? Or from whatever you are thinking to the graphic?
You write all the content and then pepper graphics across a web page?
Content in the form of words is not meant to be read? Is it only there to support or to show support for the graphics?
You make such web-pages because your ads don’t do a great job of communicating? Your graphics are semi-ads that do the job of full ads?
You use graphics since you like the eyes of your web-page visitor darting and dancing in zigzag fashions? Zigzag movements of eyes are sexy?
Graphic design and web-page design are exclusive domains? One who does one thing doesn’t understand the other thing?
Web-page is obsolete?
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Website, to glam or not to?
‘Website’ is a misnomer. But what we call ‘website’ ought to carry a name.
Someone called it a website once and after that everyone felt like calling it a website. So we call it a website.
Plenty of our buyers tell us your website, www.mississippiearrings.com, ought to be glam.
We started selling the kind of earrings we sell so that your faces look glam, your looks look glam.
We did not start the website for the website to look glam.
Okay, let me put this in some other terms. Website is not a physical building that stands in some space, and that tries to stand out in that space. Website is just a background against which you view something, in our case our earrings.
Imagine paper trying to be glam! What will happen to the writing? For colorful glam pics, paper can be glossy but that’s that. Paper ought to be background and remain that way.
Now you would say, website is a structure too. But I would say, structure isn’t website. Structure is exactly that, structure. Or let me say, structure is a structure against the background of website.
Does it resonate with you? Does this makes sense? To me it does. When I have better words and explanations, I will write another post.
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Monster Cushioning
Dear Shoe-lover,
Am I too harsh? What do you make of this?
Do you believe it? Monster-level cushioning? What’s that? You want your feet to be in the hands of a pedicurist all day long?
32mm cushioning. That’s more than an inch. Did God give you birth with torn heels and spiky floor? Even then you may not need it.
Monster has poky teeth. Monster is big. Monster cushioning would be big poky teethy cushioning? Yeah, right. Go ahead. Buy this shit.
There’s this energy drink too, Monster. Wear these shoes, have Monster energy drink and you’ll be monstrously comfortable. Or monstrously comfortably energetic. Sorry, you decide. What a monstrously bad post!
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What is Comfort?
Dear Shoe-lover,
My FB feed showed me this ad. What do you see?
Whether you see something or not, I see a few things very clearly.
The shoe on the left, which should supposedly be worse in terms of comfort, actually has a better shape for the feet to express itself. Look carefully? No, you don’t have eyes for careful looking?
If you are with me till this point and your eyes aren’t tired, here’s another point.
Comfort doesn’t lie in the sole of your shoe. Unless it is really bad, any mildly spongey sole would do. Really… Comfort lies in the free spread/expression of your toes when you have the shoes on.
What does it mean, free spread/expression?
It means you are a dumb-head, dear Shoe-lover. Yeah? Yeah!
That breathable upper, the less said the better. Why? Because it is just cost-cutting and quality-cutting. For an active-on-the-feet sort of shoe-lover, it has a real chance of tearing way too soon. If you haven’t yet tried such a shoe yet, do try and share your true experiences.
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And if there has to be space beyond…
And if there has to be space beyond the toes, it is the big toe that deserves most amount of space. And yet the tip of the typical shoe is in line with the second toe, making that the most spacious part of the shoe.
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Google introduces good extensions to its search function…
Google introduces good extensions to its search function and messes it up. The My Business section is yet another example.
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Notebook and a pen And some scatterings On…
Notebook and a pen
And some scatterings
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