morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
I got an idea that theories available in books should be converted into dances. Outrageous, no?
Bullet points got converted into Youtube videos.
Folks are watching Youtube videos like mad and bullet-point channels are doing so well.
Are you good at bullet-points? You can become a Youtube sensation.
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Web-page is obsolete?
There are audio visual channels and there are action channels. In the latter, you are always the hero if you develop a sense of looking at yourself just ever so slightly during the action.
Two points in the context of using software, made by others, in ways that can serve us well:
Say, in a weird situation, you have a nail to hammer but no hammer. So would you not hammer the nail in? You’ll search for something that serves as a hammer. You’ll look around and you find a weirdly shaped small block of stone. Or say a smoothly shaped paper weight. The obvious question: can this be used to hammer the nail?
3rd point, once you’ve figured what you would like to do with the software object:
4th point, remember to start with a question and ask a question of any kind in the context of any software object.
Phew, long post by my standards. Any useful?
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