The Great Discontent is one of the best designed sites I’ve seen this year, and the interviews are in-depth and fun to read. From the moment I saw the site I was in love and wanted to be involved. Thankfully, Ryan and Tina gave me the opportunity and we spent an hour on Skype talking about life, the pursuit of happiness, and ABC’s hit-drama from the 90s, The Commish.
Garrett Murray talks with Dan Benjamin about filmmaking, software development, inspiration, and the future of the web as a platform for creativity.
I had a lot of fun recording this episode and it’s apparent since I talk for about 43 minutes straight. I think Dan said a total of about 50 words.
If you’ve wanted to listen to me ramble on endlessly about Ego’s development and design as well as iPhone development and PR, here’s your chance.
Chris Bowler interviewed me over the course of a month, and we talked about my experience with design, developing iPhone apps, filmmaking and being a neat freak.
On not considering myself a designer:
All my design work is for my own projects—things like Ego, my sites, other web applications—I’m the client and I’m not forced to work on a deadline. I could never be a designer by trade because I’m not particularly good at it in regular intervals. I get inspiration, I sit down, I knock out a design. But then I might not design again for two months. If I had to do it every day, I would be a horrible failure.
And “selling yourself”:
It seems perfectly logical to me. I don’t begrudge anyone who is good at self-marketing, especially when they’re talented at something (or multiple things). I do get frustrated when people become famous and/or successful when they have no inherent skills other than networking—what’s the point of being well known for being useless?
It was fun to cover so many topics in one interview. If you’re interested in this sort of thing, give it a read.
First & 20 is a collection of iPhone home screens of “some of the best and brightest developers, designers and tech writers.” And while I don’t fit into that description, they included me. So go and see my home screen and me rambling about it. You know, if you’re interested in that kind of thing.
While you’re there, check out the other people they’ve featured.
Chad Engle from Fuel Your Apps recently interviewed me about developing Ego, my thoughts on the iPhone SDK and pinch/zoom. Plus you can get a look at my insanely bad original sketch and mockup of the Ego icon.
