Archive for December 17th, 2009

Designing for Everyday

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

church-bridgeOne of the trickiest parts about working in the technology industry or the church is that we very quickly end up in this bubble. A bubble where our concept of normal becomes skewed. In the technology side of things we assume everyone has the same or comparable gear that we do. We want to utilize our gadgets and sell our customers on them as the current trend. In web development one of these examples is mobile websites. Only a fraction of people access the web from their phones in the US (and recent cell phone improvements have made the need to develop a mobile site even less necessary).

The church is no different. Without a meticulous focus on the mission and vision of the church every organization will begin to do things simply because they can, and these new things will be exciting for the core team of people at the church. There are 3 key questions that are very simple: (more…)