He’s Just Had Coffee

Back about a week ago, I made a few observations about McCloud’s notion of the iconic face and how it related to persona detail when building scenarios for strategic visioning or for usability purposes. I’m not the only design-geek to be fascinated by Scott, Kathy at “Creating Passionate Users” name-checks his notion as well and he […]

Something that came out of a couple of talks I’ve given recently about the use of scenarios in design… Scott McCloud in “Understanding Comics” makes a claim that simple, iconic faces in comics (canonical example: Tin Tin) allow us to mentally “fall into” the character - to identify with the character and see ourselves in […]

The eerie mathematics of the family tree of humanity… Yet this was the ancestor of every person now living on Earth — the last person in history whose family tree branches out to touch all 6.5 billion people on the planet today. That means everybody on Earth descends from somebody who was around as […]

So many reasons to love Wikipedia when you’re an unreformed obscurantist like me. I start with an innocent enough question to answer about the key forms of Yoga. That leads me to Agni Yoga, which leads me among other places to Oomoto (and on to Shinshukyo), Burkhanism, stuff about the Holy Grail, Akbar the Great. Burkhanism […]