I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the similarities between music and graphic/web design (both part of my personal duality list) and the modern methods for creating each.
First a little background on my abilities and interest.
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just thought I would share that 
So last October I attended UI13, an annual usability conference presented by User Interface Engineering (you can check out my recap here). One presentation I was fortunate enough to see was Scott Berkun’s talk on why designers fail.
Recently, in promotion of the upcoming UI14, UIE sent out some podcasts from last year’s conference, and Berkun’s was one of them.
Basically, Berkun talks about the need for designers to fail, where by failing we learn from our mistakes and know how to address similar scenarios in the future.
Without saying much more, I figgure I will let Berkun do the the talking
You can also follow along with the slides he used to present though they are not synced to the audio (so it’s really just one big guessing game )
So as many now know (or should know), Disney recently purchased Marvel Comics along with all their characters and content. As a life long Marvel fan, I’m not too excited by this move because I think Disney may not make the best choices of how to portray the world’s most bad-ass super heroes within the Disney-Family-Fun guidelines (let’s face it, we’ve been waiting for years for good, true-to-the-book, versions of comic movies, and just when we start getting them, the most white-washing media company gets a hold of the rights).
Anyway, I saw this morning Woot posted in their blog, the Marvel/Disney crossovers they would like to see. My favorite being
Bambi’s Mother vs. Uncle Ben: “With great power comes great responsibility” – or, “If you’d just been a better kid, I’d still be alive.” The neuroses of tomorrow begin here!
I guess on the upside, Disney will do whatever makes them the most money, so hopefully all the “fanboys” of former years now own software companies or fortune 500s, and can afford to make an impact on the market.
(props to Emily for the image)