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Wednesday, June 22
Tuesday, June 7
Meditation on design.
by
Malcolm!
on Tue 07 Jun 2005 01:44 PM HKT
I receive a monthly
newsletter about emerging
technlogies, the most recent copy of which linked to a blog
post about an article
in the NYTimes: Parents 'Forced' to Upgrade Kids' Social
Technology, to keep up with the Joneses kids.
The post also linked to a longer article on "Technology and Happiness" which in turn led me to a do google search for "mindfulness meditation" and hence to this page at www.meditationcentre.com which describes the first meditation technique I learned around 20 years ago at the East/West Centre in London. It also reminded me
of how much I enjoy the calm I can feel when I'm practising regularly, and
second, how common is the connection between meditation/spirituality and a
complete lack of design sense.
Really, there is a
significant number of people who seem to use their new found mental peace to
produce some of the most visually distracting and
difficult-to-read
websites you'll ever see. Who told these people that
pond-scum-green was the way to go?. There's also a tendency to choose odd pale pastel colours with images repeated behind the text. I
can almost hear the new age ambient noise in the background. Then there
are the sites that you just know, are going to try to
extract money from you before the page
has completed loading.
I prefer the ones
that go for the minimalist
approach, or simple
designs. At least with these I might stay around long enough to look
at some of the content.
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