spencercritchley.com Archives: March 2005
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30 March 2005
I Want Less And I’m Willing To Pay For It
Recently I wrote an article on Flow and musical instrument design, arguing that too many electronic musical instruments disrupt creative flow because their interfaces are poor and they emphasize features instead of user experience. It came out of work done by a brainstorming group at Project Bar-B-Q in the fall of 2004. I used “flow” [...]
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25 March 2005
Bungee Jumping With Technology
“When we try a new technology, the technology changes us. This pattern apparently goes back to the invention of agriculture, which led us to start living in cities (to store & trade crops), to invent writing (for tracking transactions) and… become accountants. Using technology always carries the risk that the technology will make you more [...]
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25 March 2005
How We Went From Nowhere To Track Of The Day On Garageband.com
“Last week, as an experiment, I uploaded to garageband.com a song by an independent country artist whose CD I produced. Given that there are thousands of artists on the site, I assumed that not much was likely to happen, but I was interested in learning about how garageband works. Tomorrow (March 17, 2005), that song [...]