Chris Johanesen
This is my tumble log. I do web stuff for BuzzFeed. My home page is here. Thanks for stopping by.
February 16, 2009
February 11, 2009
Is Good Design Replicable?
Joshua Porter asks “Is there a process that guarantees good design?” My response:
I think a lot of this type of discourse depends on the assumption that designs are finite, stand-alone products. If a designer works in a continuous and holistic manor, constantly refining and improving the product, it becomes much harder to count successes and failures.
I think that Apple sees not just each product as an evolving design with iterations, but rather their whole strategy for a particular problem is the product. For instance, you can look at iTunes, the iTunes Music Store, and each type of iPod as separate products, or you can look at Apple’s overall strategy (to profit from improving the user experience of finding and listening to music) as a product.
I believe Apple’s success is founded less on process and more on the fact that they take a holistic and iterative approach to “product” design that integrates everything and everyone involved from design to engineering to manufacturing to business strategy.1 year ago
February 9, 2009
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
My co-worker’s new album is out and it’s awesome!
1 year ago
February 5, 2009
Logic and Emotion
Information Architects vs. Experience Designers from Christopher Fahey
1 year ago
February 1, 2009
Wow. Infographics is all the rage these days, but it’s not so often you see designs as beautiful (and function) as this. Via Infographics News (where’s there’s more.)
1 year ago
December 31, 2008
November 4, 2008
Voted!
1 year ago
October 6, 2008
September 23, 2008
Oh Happy Day!
Cmd-~ (tilde) is now assigned to switching among open documents, as is Ctrl-Tab, meaning Photoshop is now consistent with both Mac and Windows conventions.1 year ago
September 16, 2008
BuzzFeed is hiring
(via lamb)
1 year ago
September 14, 2008
David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech at Kenyon University
I’m sure everyone on the internet is linking to this and saying “if you haven’t read this yet, you need to read it now” but, well… yeah. RIP DFW.
1 year ago
August 25, 2008

