Gaia Community: jaxxon's Blog

Music

http://jaxxon.gaia.com — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:37:07 GMT

Music makes smiles.
Smiles make hugs.
Hugs make love.
Love makes music.

--Jackson D. Carson

Tags: music, smiles, hugs, love, smile, hug, poem

Purple money?

http://jaxxon.gaia.com — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:55:44 GMT

Wow!

The US Treasury is going purple:
http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2008/02/New-Five?TID=st092007ab

:-)

Tags: purple, money, currency, dollars, US

PlayPumps - a creative solution.

http://jaxxon.gaia.com — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:55:59 GMT

National Geographic Feature on PlayPump Water Systems

Tags: video, change the world, water, pump

Gaia Community, Team

http://jaxxon.gaia.com — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:56:31 GMT

Name and Title

Jackson D. Carson
Official Title: Senior Web Art Director
Gaia Community Title: Pixelospher
Photo

What's your role at Gaia Community?

Being an interactive designer (UI designer), my job is to make our web site look good and easy to use.

What do you most enjoy doing (or what are your greatest passions)?

I have a spectrum of passions from the superficial (playing music, photography, web surfing,...) to the deep (inner development, sitting on a mountain top, healing, connecting with Gaia, etc.)

What's your favorite thing about our community?

The people!

What do you love about working here?

The people!

Meet the rest of the Gaia Team

Tags: Gaia Community, Team

User Interface Changes a Foot

http://jaxxon.gaia.com — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:25:10 GMT

We humans fear change, but that's silly 'cause as we all know, change is constant. And, well, members of this community should be hip to THAT concept, right?

So.. anyway, I'm very excited to be part of that change! It's rather daunting, but I'm going to be doing some serious design work on the UI for this web site. The overall look and feel as well as usability! For one thing, the interface doesn't reflect our innerface. What I mean is... the user interface isn't all that intuitive -- even for those of us who have been in the community for a long time.

My wife recently tried to sign up but gave up, frustrated, half-way through the process. I know that I have had confusion about how to get where I want to go when my profile navigation bar comes and goes. Etc. etc. etc.

I've been checking out everyone's comments in the Ideas section (try to find 'em.. another example of messed up usability). Anyway, "keep it simple" is a big theme, here. Believe me, we're all about simple here. And as a UI designer, I am especially concerned with ease of use and simplicity.

Anyway, we'll be working hard on making some dramatic improvements in the coming weeks. Be looking for changes and ideas as they are developed. I welcome user comments, of course, but if your idea is to make everything blink, fuhgetaboudit. :)

-jxn

Tags: zaadz, user interface, ui, navigation, gui, usability, interface, gaia, zaadz team, nursery, incubator

What's your ideal working situation?

http://jaxxon.gaia.com — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:58:35 GMT

Working with like-minded people -- people who want to change the world for the better. Working in a close-knit team of creative, inspiring, progressive individuals, making up a whole that is far greater than the sum of its parts. Working with people who "get it". ;-)

Tags: QaR, work, environment, working, job, quiet, social