Mobile Ministry Magazine

Hello all;
Hopefull, you have been having a blessed and not to busy week. Mine has been on the side of busy, but blessed as I made the decsion to have a more positive attitude about life as a whole earlier this week.

So, I think now about design. When Paul talks about the body in 1 Cor 12 and 14, he talks a lot about how we are designed to work together. Designed to know each other's functions, and at the same time, not get in the way of the purpose of the Body to be a light. In similar fashion, I see technology and different aspects of design and form helping us to get a better idea of where we are in teh Body, and how we can contribute to a better functioning piece of the Body.

The other side of my design thoughts today happened to be a rethink of a redesign of MMM. I posted this design here before, but would like to get another opinion about it. Granted, the mock up is flash, but I have been considering Flash as a possible direction for the site (if I can make it accessible for mobile devices, and if it can work on a majority of computers, and if I can somehow afford Macromedia Studio 8). Drop me a note as to what you all think. Its time to get on the ball with that design thought again.

And a final design thought for the day came to me while I was using my tabletPC. I realized that more than anything, I appreciate when my computing experience is seemless. Where I can use programs and not think about how they work, or how to get the most out of them. Sometimes, I just wanna see my thoughts on the screen. And for PDAs, mobile phones, and tabletPCs, that seems to be the biggest hurdle. The hardware is there, but the software has not yet lent itself to being seemless enough that it really is a part of life because its fits, and not because we fit it in. Now, if I were a software developer, I might be looking at it differntly, but on this day of plenty of design-oriented thoughts, this is one of those things that makes me wonder if we can really do bettter, and really bring an about face to the possiblity of making a design that will speak to the hearts of people, not just to their need for info retrieval.