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Yet Another Interim Theme

In I've Journal on 7 January 2008 tagged , , with 9 comments

My friend, the talented designer and entrepreneur, Derek Powazek came up with this very simple theme which fits the bill perfectly for me for a “stand-in” design while I’m slammed with product releases.

Speaking of product releases, I designed and helped release BravoNation a couple of weeks ago. We launched just before Christmas so it was without much fanfare and the product is also invite only. Luckily, I have invites to give. I’d like to talk in depth about the product, why I think it’s very cool and how I went about the design process but that’s for another day.

In fact, here are some of the posts that are on my plate and I just haven’t gotten around to finishing. If you’re still here reading, maybe you can leave a vote in the comments on which article I should write first:

What do you think?


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Would be very interesting to hear your thoughts on incentive systems. Would that involve some game design thinking? Also, anything related involving Play-Doh sounds great.

Posted by Kars on 7 January 2008 @ 3am

My vote is for this order:
* Why I Did Buy an iPhone Afterall
* Improv is Like Design
* Going from Play-Doh to Website (2 parts)
* Incentive Systems On and Offline

Posted by Ben on 7 January 2008 @ 3am

Improv
Incentive
Going from Play-Doh
iPhone!

Posted by George on 7 January 2008 @ 3am

Oh, so clean! I must have it for my WordPress.com blog.

Posted by Jackson West on 7 January 2008 @ 3am

George: You realize the conversation we had at CampCamp was a pivotal point in the iPhone change of heart right? =)

Kars: Yes, I’ve been thinking about and applying as much as possible game design principles into social media website design and have a lot I want to write about in that regard.

Posted by Kevin Cheng on 7 January 2008 @ 3am

all this whiteness
must tap down the brightness
this blog is serious
your subjects are mysterious
where did you hear that?
did Steve tell you that?

Posted by momz wopperer on 7 January 2008 @ 5am

my vote:
improv
iPhone
play-doh
incentive

Hopefully by the time you write tour iPhone post I’ll have made that video from when we went to buy them together.

Posted by karen on 7 January 2008 @ 9am

Simplicity is beauty.

Mark me up for (1) Incentive Systems On and Offline, (2) Improve is Like Design, (3) Going from Play-Doh to Website, and (4) Why I Did Buy an iPhone Afterall…

Kudos and congrats on BravoNation. In the event that you have not yet spent your invite allocation, I would love one!

Posted by troy worman on 9 January 2008 @ 3pm

Hm.. I’m biased, but I’d love to see the Incentive Systems one. :-) (iPhone… meh. Everyone’s covered that already.)

Posted by Bryce on 5 February 2008 @ 2pm

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Kevin Cheng is a global nomad who's settled in San Francisco after calling Vancouver, Hong Kong, Austin and London his homes. Founder of Off Panel Productions and OK/Cancel. Director of Product Strategy at Raptr, a social network for gamers, and former designer of Pipes and Bravonation at Yahoo!. Presenter on numerous design subjects. Reachable at kc -at- this domain.

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