Well, I’ve been wondering that a lot recently. Cleaning out my inbox I revisited a treat sent to me in August ’09 from Jennifer Morla of Morla Design called 33 Ideas also known as  ’33 Designisms‘ and I couldn’t wait to share it with everyone and the Qworky community. The link in the email referenced  Jennifer’s site, but a few broken links and broken wikipedia references later the information was gone. Lost from internet memory.

Our team has used her words as shared inspiration for design experience, so its a huge loss that her manifesto is generally inaccessible on the web.

While nearly impossibly to find without doing a verbatim search for a few of her designisms; someone on MySpace transcribed her 33 ideas. But MySpace information is shaky at best- one person decides they abandon their MySpace profile and suddenly this manifesto presented at AIGA Colorado is lost forever? What is etiquette in the digital era? Should even great ideas be allowed to die (metaphorically speaking)?

Well I’ve sent her a message via Linkedin asking her thoughts. I’ll let you know what I hear.

In the mean time here are the 33 Ideas or Designisms by Jennifer Morla. We hope you find her wisdom as inspiring as we do (along with the many others with her great vision in their inboxes).  And perhaps you’ll find our experience more than embodying a few.

33 Ideas or Design Isms by Jennifer Morla

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- Mikal

Image via Flickr orkboi

When uninstalling the HP Games application – I had to check the box no fewer than 20 times to uninstall all the pre-installed games. Not only that its impossible to discern true software enhancements (drivers, etc.) from redundant functionally (HP MediaSmart Music anyone?). Sadly I chalk this poor experience up to prioritizing business goals, over user experience- when they need not be in conflict.