(Part … well, we’ve lost count of Roman numerals, but it’s the next part in our continuing series of team profiles: Leap In’s Art Engineer, whose avatar binds our tongues with the challenging name “Schmayekol”. As you’ll discover, he’s a duality wrapped in two likeable personalities…)

Hello fellow cyberspace explorer, glad you came to visit.

I suppose writing that last sentence that I use the term cyberspace not simply to invoke 80’s nostalgia for William Gibson’s works (although I am a fan of that for some reason) but rather because the Internet has become something much more then a connection of networked computers.

Art brain: They don’t want to hear that…

Engineer brain: But it is interesting… packet switching over networks of networks routing data…

Art brain: They came here to have a good time, let me take over for a while…

Part III in our continuing series of intros…
Introducing “Pimm”, Animator & Renaissance Man

Just leap in. A decree that sounds enticing to these ears o’ mine. For me, it’s reminiscent of a hot summer’s day when that phrase would be declared as a dare to all others as my 10 year old self would blaze across the local beach’s dock, picking up every possible splinter in my feet and clambering to hold onto my brother’s 2-sizes-too-big hand-me-down shorts. A dare I’d still be screeching out as I’d spring out into the air over the surface of the cool water. Of course, then there would come that Wiley Coyote moment where I’d hang in the air, my skin involuntarily goosepimpling, bracing for the irrefutable icy shock to come. The next instant, plunged beneath that frigid water, the effervescence of bubbles from impact massaging my tantalized skin, the sensation of refreshment and weightlessness as if in some mouthwash-seltzer solution. And as I’d drift up toward the shimmering surface, I’d realize the leap, the risk of what I’m sure I thought would be me inside a giant ice cube bobbing in the water the moment I resurfaced, was worth every splinter.

No need to worry though.

Continuing our series of team profiles with a new Q&A…

Q: So, madam, what do you do here?
“Alegna”: Ask a million questions, make things pretty, harass developers about typography, and learn something new everyday. They call me “Web “Designer.”

Worst usability examples: three bullet points, ascending importance.

• • bullet points (kidding!)
• • devices that don’t work when charging
• • having to drill down a million levels to get a single piece of punctuation
     (see my cell phone)

Facebook: will it change the world?
Hasn’t it already? Where else can you find your Egyptian pen-pal from your preteens and all your ex-boyfriends in the same place?

Give us some examples of great web design.
Here we go (like everything, they’re open to debate…)