Making of April Zero: Part 2

http://aprilzero.com/journal/making-of-aprilzero-part-2/

by aprilzero • 12 years ago

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joelrunyon3• 12 years ago

This is cool. I want this to be an app.

joelrunyon3• 12 years ago

And I just realized he's releasing it as one - http://gyrosco.pe/

misframer• 12 years ago

He should put some text on that website.

TannerLD• 12 years ago

Would be nice to have some sort of link back to the article just to confirm the two.

Also weird I put in my email and the page just scrolled down and revealed some aviation manuals. No indication if it "worked" or not.

Nzen• 12 years ago

I thought so too, but - for myself - I know I'm not tracking enough aspects or varying my location enough for all the gauges that his lifestyle accommodates. I will, however, take this inspiration to my own projects, where I've been more apt to use canvas than svn.

at-fates-hands• 12 years ago

http://aprilzero.com/journal/making-of-aprilzero/

I like at the end of part 1 where his buddy texts him and asks him if he wants to go to Hong Kong and to meet in 5 hours at SFO.

Must be nice. . .

laacz• 12 years ago

This is some hugely impressive amount of highest quality work done by a single person. I cannot recall seeing anything more astonishing than this.

sixQuarks2• 12 years ago

It doesn't matter how long you practices the art of design, there are few people that can pull this off by themselves. I believe this guy has natural design talent coupled with years of practice.

computerslol2• 12 years ago

I see talent. This is a nifty display of technical prowess. I don't see discipline or any concern for the experience of the user.

Having spent some time in the explorer section, what I see is something pretty, but unreadable. After the novelty of the interface choices fades, it's about as engaging as an XML document. There's no story here, no human element. I am seeing some interesting ideas and uses of space wasted displaying useless data. The experience is disjointed, the navigation is not intuitive, the page does weird things on scroll, and it doesn't work in IE11 (which is more offensive to me than it likely is to most of his audience - I switched to chrome to play with this).

If I were looking through this as a portfolio piece, I would be impressed with the technical elements of the design, a bit put-off by the usability problems, and confused (and a little upset) as to why a record of travel to 72 cities is presented in such a dehumanized manner.

debt• 12 years ago

In his defense it was a personal project; not a product for paying customers. I find it impossible to get "upset" at someone's personal project.

But haters gonna hate.

EDIT: Count all the haters above coming out of the woodwork. We can't see the points so we'll never know the real number.

pavlov• 12 years ago

The uncritical worship of data is probably the most irritating aspect of contemporary technology intelligentsia culture.

Knowing my own pulse every second is boring and misleading, but knowing someone else's pulse is just plain boring.

People obsessing over statistics is not a new phenomenon, but it used to be that the people who memorized World War II logistics details (or whatever) at least knew that their fixation is ultimately meaningless. Nowadays statistics geeks are convinced that they're contributing something important to the world by analyzing and curating their endless log streams.

sixQuarks2• 12 years ago

It's not even the user experience I'm talking about. It's just that his design has an unspoken quality to it. Look at the way he presents the "making of" article. Everything just looks so right.

Making of April Zero: Part 2

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