So in my last post I promised some words on why I haven’t been posting for awhile. I’ll keep this short, since blog meta chat is usually just painful.

For quite awhile I was writing mainly about UX stuff, design thoughts and speculations and what-ifs. But then I switched roles at work and started doing more programming. And the more programming I did the more I thought about programming, and the more I think about programming the less I analyze things from a UX angle. (I’ve come to the viewpoint that it’s possible to do both, but not at the same time. They require two such radically different ways of thinking — the spatial and holistic vs. the linear and analytical.)

It’s like when you’re writing fiction a lot, and you get ideas for stories constantly. But then you stop writing so much, maybe you get busy or whatever, and soon the story ideas no longer come. My point is, we think most about what we’re focused on, even when we’re not actively focusing on it.

So I hope to start posting some things that I build, like Life, and maybe some how-to’s as well. I have another Flash item that I’ll be sharing within the next couple of days. But right now I’m really just learning a lot (mainly ActionScript and Ruby on Rails), and having fun creating weird, out-there UI for the web.

Looks like I’m a programmer after all…