Ianus Keller

My son is called Boris and I want to learn how to explain geeky stuff in language that Boris understands.

Combining fun and relevance.

I left her my first ODEO message, would love to meet her in person. Shouldn’t be that hard.

Setwart spoke at the 2000 Doors of Perception: Lightness conference in Amsterdam about his anti-bloat software design competition called the 5k

His speech was inspiring, I had a very short time to say hi, so it’s not really a good meet (would love to have a better one).

The other story I have about him, was that he and Caterina visited my friends/ex-coworkers at Q42 to talk about using their xopus WYSIWYG editor for GameNeverEnding and my friend said no… Little did he know. Very cool story.

Because I loved Flickr before I understood it and would love to show her and the othr Flickrites my PhD research prototype on how designers can collect visual material for inspiration

I just bought (and quickly read) the Getting real book and was thinking… this is not for everyone. These tips don’t work for all the readers.

For example, I personally would be good in doing mostly the first part: defining the key values, designing the interface and get everyone motivated. But after that… “rinse and repeat” is not my thing. I am a project person and not suited for maintenance. Or is this just a fixation I have in my mind?

How do you do that? How can you keep up with all the support questions, bugfixing, server problems, optimalization tweaking? Don’t you like to have a clean slate once and a while?

Still, great stuff and best of luck.

He sure is charismatic.

He writes really well.

I was invited at Apple during the Interface Design Project 1994. This included a tour of the design department, headed by Robert Brunner. The designs back than were of high quality, yet low “sex-appeal”. I did saw Jonathan Ive (more hair, less muscular) working on projects including the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (which I believe he liked, but was not passionate about).
On the picture you can see Robert Brunner (the head of design at the time).