Less To Worry About

In my spare time this past week I've been working on business cards for the shop. It's been a nice change of pace working on a project that allows me to focus my time and energy on only a few elements—shape, layout, color—trying to make them as perfect as I can (still working on it).

That's not to say that those aren't my primary considerations on interactive projects, but there are a far greater number of other elements to deal with—user flow and experience, information architecture, hardware specs, dev platforms, interface (keyboard/mouse or other), OS/browser compatibilities—that take away focus from the first three graphic elements.

The small sandbox has been refreshing and I'm really looking forward to the satisfaction of having a physical object at the end of project instead of a website or installation that will disappear or become obsolete in the next 6 months.