Tales of a Designer

Headed to SXSWi…Eventually

So the time has finally come for 2/3’s of the team to head to SXSWi. Unfortunately we won’t arrive when we had originally planned. Our flight to Dallas was cancelled this morning due to weather, so we had to scramble to get a new flight, and now won’t be arriving to Austin until 11:50 p.m. So it will be a very long day spent in airports and flying, aka, lots of time to blog and catch up with feeds.

Luckily the meat of the panels don’t start until Saturday, so we won’t miss much, although I was very much looking forward to seeing the Repect! panel with Zeldman, and company. I will just have to get the recap from someone.

Here are a few panels that I’m looking forward to:

• 10 Things We’ve Learned at 37signals
• A General Theory of Creative Relativity
• Everyone’s A Design Critic
• Pimp My Non Profit - Real Non-Profits Kicking Ass with Online Technology
• Design Eye for South By

Of course there are more panels that I plan on attending, but those listed above look the most promising. So hopefully the rest of my day will go more smoothly than the morning, and I very much look forward to getting into the conference atmosphere and abusing my twitter account.

Uninspired Lately

For the past few months my writing has been a bit slower here, but not without reason. I browse the web quite a bit, and even in my free time, I’m normally web surfing while watching tv or listening to music. As of lately, though, I’ve been pretty uninspired with the web. It’s not that I’m liking the web less, but I’m just not finding blogs and sites that inspire me to write something about it.

What makes blogging a little harder is working all day, where there is no time to blog, and then doing Tridea work in the evenings. By the time all my work is done, I’m a little worn out by the day and don’t have the mental energy to write something interesting here. This doesn’t mean that I want to give up writing on this blog, though I’ve pondered it, but more of looking for other ways to inspire myself to write.

I used to love reading A List Apart, but for some reason their topics as of lately just don’t appeal to me much anymore. Over the past year, I’ve taken more of an interest in the business side of this industry, especially after starting a company of my own. So I might look to writing about more business topics here that are relevant to the design industry.

I still plan to maintain this blog because I do still enjoy writing, as well as being a member of 9rules. I am looking to add a little more life to this site in ‘08. I am also about ready for a redesign which I think will encourage me to write a little more as well. I am also open for suggestions in finding more inspiration to write.