About us
Brillig House was founded by Kara Heinrichs in 2011. Kara’s an eCommerce and information design expert who’s been designing websites and teaching web design since the beginning of the web and eCommerce sites since the beginning of eCommerce. She ruefully points out that when she started using the Internet you could read all of the news in all of the newsgroups during your lunch hour.
She’s joined at Brillig House by a small (but scrappy!) group of like-minded designers and technologists–people who believe the user is central and that website design has been stagnant for too long. This dog’s too young not to be learning new tricks.
Brillig specializes in eCommerce and Magento consulting, focusing primarily on frontend theming, IA and UX design. But we’re super excited about some of our eBook (or, as we say, booq) work. Watch for the Brillig House booq catalog soon.
“If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your
houseswebsites that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” —William Morris
Origins
Jabberwocky
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
--Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872
Jabberwocky as ActionScript. Attribution unknown.
