As Far As I Can Tell

The latest issue of Scoot! Quarterly has been released. Rumor is that it contains the article I wrote on the Moped Army, so I’m going to go pick up a copy tonight. I’m interested to see how they presented it, and if we’ll get any feedback from it. The Mosquito Fleet are also going to be having an article about them in The Stranger pretty soon. It’s good to see we’re getting press, even in the winter.

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Tonight I’m to go see Rainer Maria and Mates of State at The Metro. I missed Mates of State the last time they came though, so I’m really looking forward to it. Both bands use the guy/girl vocal combo, so they’re a good match.

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I’m slowly chipping away at the project I’m currently on, and it’s starting to get a little old. I don’t completely hate it yet, but I’m reminded of an article that I read a while ago. It was concerning Interaction Design and how in order to make user centered design decisions you have to give up programming.

I assumed at the time this was a comment on time commitments. I realize now that he was speaking to the fact that programming can influence the design process. It’s very easy to fall in the trap of choosing a solution for its programming elegance, and overlook the interaction design. I still enjoy both, so ideally I’d be able to just focus on one or the other on a project by project basis.