March, 2013 | Geist

Squar-ish, blue-ish icons. And an experiment for you!

On 25 Mar, 2013By guiheadz With No Comments

I mentioned in a post below the overwhelming dominance of blue-ish, squar-ish icons. It would seem that designers seem to naturally gravitate towards this particular shape/colour combination like some kind of moth to a halogen flood-light. Allow me to demonstrate. Below is a screenshot of one of my monitors the other day. Now, whilst the […]

A lecture I recently delivered: Hip Hop and Indigeneity

On 23 Mar, 2013By guiheadz With No Comments

So, this is a little off-topic for people purely interested in Interaction Design, but I’m posting this here anyway. I just gave my first lecture of the Audio Culture subject I’m helping deliver at UTS namely: ‘HipHop and Indigeneity’. In total I’ll be doing two other lectures on ‘Dubstep’ and ‘Improvisation’. It’s been fascinating process […]

The Narrative Mind – Persuasion by telling tales

On 19 Mar, 2013By guiheadz With No Comments

So I attended a campaign training session for The Greens recently – and we spent quite a bit of time talking about narrative theory and some interesting psych related aspects of campaigning. Fascinating. This book: ‘The Political Brain’ by Drew Westen was heavily referenced, and apparently is responsible for a major thrust of the Obama […]