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Mind Bender UI

Jared — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:08:34 +0000

Spent some time this weekend working on the UI for this project. Once I can get this to where I like it the coding will start. You can see a screen shot of it below. Also you can follow the progress more fully on my git hub account. http://github.com/jdaines/mindbender . The designs were created in the awesome program of balsamiq. Progress is happening slowly but surley. If you have any ideas about how to make this better or something that doesn’t make sense please leave a comment.

Announcing Project Mind bender

Jared — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:19:14 +0000

Mind Bender

I’ve been in the process of planning a new project. While it will be mostly aimed at the Android platform I would like to port it to other hand held devices once it is going. But to keep me going I am going to post all the development ideas and progress I make here at this blog. I’m hoping that some others will find the project interesting enough to give some feedback or learn from this process. I have also set up an issue tracker at project.minorsoft.com. This site will turn into mostly a project update site for this. I will move more of my personal blogging to www.givemefreedom.org.

A little bit about Project Mind bender and its goals. I am hoping to create project mind bender to help people control or see the symptoms of depression in their lives. With all the pressures that we have today our minds respond in different ways. For many of us that response ends up in depression or feelings of being overwhelmed. I hope to use this program to help people identify situations, places, or people that tend to lead to these types of feelings or thoughts. Our brains are powerful instruments and need to be taken care of.

Yet depression for many is something that is hard to admit or deal with. The only way to control/cure depression is for those to be open about it with themselves. Depression is not usually the result of one big event but a series of small little events that culminate into one big problem. But to identify those events a record must be kept. Since many people carry their phones with them at all times and they are getting smarter and smarter I thought this would be the perfect instrument to record these small events. It will allow people to discreetly and quickly record the event. Nobody thinks twice anymore if somebody pulls out a phone and fiddles with it for a few seconds. In those few seconds a record can be made and later reviewed and aggregated on the phone to help us understand our mental health.

The key to this program will be the User interface and those are the areas that I am working on right now. I hope to have some posted here soon for you to see and give feedback on.

Google CEO at Aspen Ideas Festival

Jared — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:31:36 +0000

Eric Schmidt at the Aspen Ideas festival Video.

Eric has some great points about how government and business need to interact. I found it intersting that as a CEO of one of the most powerful companies he seemed very relaxed and willing to give his point of view. I haven’t watched alot from him in the past. I can see why google has been as sucessful as it has been and continues to be successful.

Site Failed!

Jared — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:39:38 +0000

So my site has been down for a bit… I hope nobody noticed ;) But I pulled this video off of the 37signals blog A good listen I just realized i needed a failure category since i seem to talk about it so much.

Gobby!

Jared — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:24:39 +0000

I have finally stumbled on a collaborative text editor! This in combination with hamachi would make an nice virtual office where everybody could collaborate quite easily. Although I must admit that I haven’t used hamachi since LogMeIn bought them up. But this is a quick way to throw together a vpn and a collabarative editor to work with people on web things no matter if they are running windows, linux, or a Mac.

I’ve been pretty quiet here the last couple of months

Jared — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:11:07 +0000

I haven’t been posting much but that is because I haven’t wanted to! Okay so I should say I have been busy and all that which I have in learning cakephp, working on other things like AASPO News Site as part of the launching of the news site I put together this little video and placed it on www.viddler.com. Viddler is pretty cool I really like their user interface much better than google video. So here is the video:

comments and critiques appreciated

Inkscape UI widgets continued

Jared — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:40:59 +0000

So I spent a bit of time developing some inkscape widgets for ui design. They are not perfect but were easy to create which might explain why nobody else has done it yet. However they are not quite what I want. If you use them you will see that they don’t resize like they should. This is mostly a problem with the border. I will keep playing around with these and hopefully get more added to the collection.

Looking for some UI widgets to use in inkscape for mockups

Jared — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:40:40 +0000

I am posting this in hopes that somebody out there could help me find some UI widgets elements to do some quick interface mock ups inside of inkscape. What I am looking for are some check boxes radio buttons and other common elements that show up on websites.

If I can’t figure out Facebook does that make me Anti-Social?

Jared — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:39:23 +0000

I have tried on multiple occasions to use face book. Yet despite all the hype out there about facebook I just don’t get it. Perhaps it does ultimately come back to the fact that I am “anti-social”. Now don’t get me wrong its been great to reconnect with some people from high school. But the truth of the matter is that I couldn’t wait to get out of high school and those that I wanted to stay in contact with I have. Facebook just seems to me like a place where we can go back to and relive the glory days of High School/College. I feel that the future of social networking is ultimately the blog. Facebook reminds me to much of AOL it was cool and fun when it first came out. Then I discovered the open web and that was a lot better and much more flexible.

The way we learn

Jared — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:22:15 +0000

I seem to be just posting videos now… I think commentary on this can go different ways. Education is changing it has to change. I think I will watch this a couple more times and post some thoughts later this month.