http://theopendispatch.com General musings and other bullshit Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:04:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://theopendispatch.com/2009/08/31/ikea-such-a-shame/ http://theopendispatch.com/2009/08/31/ikea-such-a-shame/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:17:42 +0000 shlampe http://theopendispatch.com/2009/08/31/ikea-such-a-shame/ What a Shame. There’s definitely something to be said about not messing with perfection, when your brand is so recognizable… Especially when you’re moving to something that is not going to do for you what you’re already doing.

]]> http://theopendispatch.com/2009/08/31/ikea-such-a-shame/feed/ 2 http://theopendispatch.com/2007/10/10/adobe-max/ http://theopendispatch.com/2007/10/10/adobe-max/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:25:30 +0000 shlampe http://theopendispatch.com/?p=3 I’m finishing up at Adobe Max 2007 in Chicago and it’s really gotten me excited about design again. So of course I ran back to my hotel room (ok, took the bus) and decided to finally do something with the open dispatch. Basically that included getting pluggedout blog installing it and making up a pretty crappy header. I’ll do more with this when I’ve got time, but I really wanted to just jot down some of the things that I took away from the sessions that I went to. This morning was one of the best sessions all week. It was with Big Spaceship (http://bigspaceship.com/). What a MFer of a design company. They do some simply incredible things (check out http://www.hungrysuitcase.com as an example). This is the type of stuff that reminds me why i love the web. It’s so easy to get wrapped up in the every day stuff and lose site of the fact that you can really love working for a living. A couple of things that I learned and/or had re-affirmed at a number of the sessions that I went to:

• Design for design sake can be fun, but it’s not always that useful
• While the adage that the client is always right works, it’s also really important to help the client get to the point where they’re making informed decisions.
• Personally I need to keep learning, every day, as much as possible. The more I learn the more I remember why I do this and the better I am at my job.
• Have fun. Just friggin’ have fun. You can make your deadlines and still enjoy what you’re doing. It’s so easy to get dragged down into day to day, lose your courage or whatever other crappy metaphor I can come up with (wow am I sounding new agey…) I have to remember to just take it as it comes and more than likely it’ll all work out in the end.

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