Skin over skeleton

Last few days were mentally busy and full of unstructured thoughts. Folks see me walking around with a cup of tea. This is beautiful phase in product design. Made me think...

Design is like Paleontology.

You excavate for bits and pieces, try put together bigger pieces that make sense and stand true within themselves. Then comes the skeleton and you try to imagine it in motion and put skin onto it. You try to figure the ambiance in which this creature must have lived and try to decipher his body in motion and his responses. User experience design in spirit is so much alike.

Paleontologists do the discovery. Fossils are a way to understand what must have existed.

While more like natures way of working, design tries to foresee different trajecotries of evolution that might work. Its fab way of worshiping the god by practicing his art. :)

Not so fluent

Atlantic is big but not enough. American's still have nostalgic feelings about everything British and the dynasty, Royal linen is even more for that matter.

'King’s Speech', after all the hype of last month, comes across way too short of expectations, but individual performances make it up for the lack of depth in movie-making. Or I would say, it is the subject matter that triumphs over the 3d s of story - details, dialogues and drama.

There is hardly any subtext or deeper insights into the characters and it fails to impress. Colin firth is in his usual self except for his temper which gives him this edginess; He carries that throughout the movie while it is nicely contrasted by the revering looks and nodes in the last shot of the movie. Colin is king of his craft and shows subtle changes in expressions and demeanor, steals key moments.
Worth mentioning is the role of your Highness of York, Queen Elizabeth by Helena carter, her eyes do all the talking. She was among my list of probable with Eduardo Saverin, who portrayed Andrew Garfield in social network. Both were unlucky as so were many ace actors in different era when it came to Oscars. She fits the bill for an aristocratic alpha woman and whole aura comes naturally. Churchill gives authenticity to this period movie with his stiff upper lip and hard hitting enunciations. David's character is weakest in the lot and so is Wallis. Even Doctor’ the family man needed little more build up and flesh.

There is no dramatic peak, any muted crescendo of sorts and movie just ends as expected. One of the remarkably crafted scenes is in which his daughters show mix of hesitation, respect and distance to the new Your Majesty, the only place of comfort for the protagonist.