Restructuring
I’m doing some restructuring around here.
I started a blog powered by Tumblr to serve as a sort of scrapbook where I can easily collect snippets from the web. Tumblr is really good about that. The bookmarklet is so convenient, and you’re not under pressure to write and write like you are (or at least I am) with a regular blog.
I’m keeping this blog though. I’m going to use it as an online journal. I will try to post at least once a week. Hopefully that will encourage me to keep thinking. Because sometimes when you don’t have enough stuff going on, you just forget to think.
So there you go. I’ve done away with the theme I threw together in a couple of nights in favour of a more complete yet more minimal theme. I’ve been thinking about minimalism a lot lately. I hopped from here to here to here to here. It was refreshing, and inspiring, to see such honest designs that honour content over all. And though I’m in a different league than these gents, they say you should dress for the job you want. So I’m going minimal with my website.
I’ve thought about how this affects my product designs, or whether it should affect them at all. Just because my website is (or will be! soon!) minimal, does not mean that everything I design needs to be stripped down to the essentials. On the contrary, the point of the minimalist website is to emphasize the content with no distractions.
Funnily enough, I got an appropriate fortune at the chinese restaurant today. It said:
“When more become too much.
It’s same as being not enough.”