We’re sorry for the inconvenience for some of you who are looking for online distractions today, being the last day before a long weekend for many Europeans, and just another day we should have taken off for the rest of us.
I’m working on the site right now, as it may appear, and implementing a newer, fresher easier-on-the-eyes look for Push Button For.
Hopefully this and all kinks will be worked out before the weekend and new content and programming will resume on Monday (Tuesday for you Europeans).
Have a good weekend.
update: Any PC IE/FireFox users? Would you like to take a screengrab of any funkiness you see going on, and send it to us? A screengrab of the home page as experienced within Safari on OS X can be seen here. Thanks in advance for your help.
Derek writes:
“Calling the beautiful, amazing, brilliant things people create online “user-generated content” is like sliding up to your lady, putting your arm around her and whispering, “Hey baby, let’s have intercourse.”
Being in the thick of the user-generated content engine, I can’t agree with you more Derek. How’s that for forward progress?
Hello, and welcome to Push Button For. This is a collaborative blog by Damien Newman and myself that relates to Interaction Design, and the ways that Interaction Design fits into the business world.
When I look back, this site should have started around 1998, back when I was one of very few bloggers in the world, but due to various factors it never happened. Damien and I have, for many years now, had dialogues (some might call them “arguments” or “debates”) both in person and via email and IM about design, interaction design, and what they have to do with business - and we have long talked about publishing our collective thoughts. Well here we are in 2006 almost ten years after we met, and we sort of have this idea in motion.
Things are still a little rough around the edges, but I can’t think of a better time to start putting thoughts. Call it a beta…
Damien did most of the coding stuff for this site, which runs on WordPress, and we had special help from our good friend, Dagan Packman in the areas of code where we simply suck too badly to do correctly. If you have problems with it, I recommend you contact Damien. Or you can contact me, and I will harass Damien myself.
People have already begun asking about the name. I got the idea when I saw one of the many crosswalk boxes one comes across in any city. It had approximately 8 words, an arrow, and a button - all for a 1-button user interface that can only perform one action. I started thinking to myself, “I wonder how many ways people have come up with to implement this one simple civic UI?” Well, it turns out that people have thought of a lot of ways to do it. See the photo on the bottom of this page.
I’ve started tagging photos of these implementations on Flickr with ‘pushbuttonfor‘ - and if you find a new version I encourage you to upload and tag it as well.
So without further noise, I welcome you to Push Button For.
I would ask the question, “Does the world need yet another Dating site?”
But instead, I’ll just say that Google has released Google Romance. I particularly like the second option on their ‘Post Your Profile’ menu: Post multiple profiles with a bulk upload file, you sleaze
Go take the tour. (April Fools)