Offmessage

Rather fitting that my 50th tshirt bookmark at del.icio.us should be this one:

Designed by Khoi Vinh of Subtraction fame (the blatant inspiration for the look of this blog) we can now state our typographical preferences with pride.

That’s I Am Not A Designer, obviously.  The design of offmessage pays relentless homage to subtraction.  I hope it’s different enough to not be a rip off, but there’s no doubting the fact that I think it’s the finest looking site on the web at the moment.  Some context: New Minimalism in Web Interface Design

As Doug was talking about only today, we are currently pulling very hard into new territory on the planning and architecture front as the projects that we work on get bigger.

We’ve come to rely on a few tools along the way, and they’re a strange set. We started out using video cameras a lot to record planning sessions. Our goal was to find the least intrusive way of capturing everything. Ultimately though, all it left us with was a whole bucket of video tape and little way to really catalogue and review it. Instead, over the last 6 months we’ve settled on a much simpler set of tools:

• A whiteboard
• More index cards of various colours than you can imagine
• A1 flipcharts
• Camera phones (for taking pictures of the flip charts and white board)
• EasyPrototype for turning photos into interactive click throughs

Our new found rapid ability to turn the flip chart scribbling into interactive prototypes led me to thinking about the old facilitators’ trick of covering the walls with huge sheets of paper for maximum doodling capacity. And then I saw PixelNotes. Pretty, and functional. Not sure Doug will let me do that to the office though.

Yes, it’s Saturday night. Yes, I’ve been drinking. But. But. I’m sure the Mouse Rug will still stand as a cool item when I’ve sobered up. I sure hope so, anyway, now that one is winging its way to York