So it seems that the cardboard digital camera is for real! I’ve always greatly appreciated their simplistic design aestetics and this camera shows just how well they do that. It’s interesting to see that this is developed for the social ux part of the business. From what I can see within the video, this means […]
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Gamification And UX: Where Users Win Or Lose | Smashing UX Design
via uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com Great article on how to make the web experience unique and fun, applying gamification.
Zokos Aims to Feed Hunger for Real Life Interaction | Food+Tech Connect
via foodandtechconnect.com Zokos is a new startup that aims to make it easier for people to connect in real life – over food- by reducing what they have identified as the “barriers to entertaining.” Last week, the Brooklyn-based startup launched their first tool, a platform designed to help hosts manage an event and share the […]
Macaron, French and Italian ones we made in class @pastrytraining
iOS 5 App Development Seminar
Getting Started & Overview Design Principles The Tools The stages of an iOS App Development Orientation to the Objective-C Language Architecture of an iOS App: Model/View/Controller Layers Overview of Selected FoundationKit Classes: Strings, Arrays & Dictionaries Popular UI, Frameworks & Distribution Tabs, Lists, Drill Down interfaces, Pickers, Adding Animations, Integrating with the Calendar, Accessing the Camera, […]
Digital Storytelling in Vancouver… Let's Collaborate to Innovate
For the last few months I’ve been meeting with a team of folks, Todd Sieling & Tylor Sherman of Denim & Steel, and John Wellwood of Echo Memoirs on how to better accomplish story telling in the digital format, to still have as much purpose and engagement as the traditional person-to-person storytelling methods. Our small group grew out of the […]
“Undesign” Your Portfolio Website
“Undesign” Your Portfolio Website Apr 2 2012 by Kean Richmond | 17 Comments | Stumble Bookmark Even the most ineffective, unattractive or simple of man-made objects have been designed in some way. The same is true for the Web: Even the most hideous of websites are created by someone who has consciously made decisions into […]
Why Can’t Startups Find Designers? Don't go looking for unicorns…
via thenextweb.com I really like the below excerpt from the article: According to Braden Kowitz, a unicorn is “a magical designer that can solve all [of a company’s] problems”. If you’re looking for a designer who can come up with your identity, design your site, create UIs with great user experience for your web and […]
Incredible Text Drawings | Colossal
via thisiscolossal.com wow. amazingly intricate and beautiful. You must need to be incredibly patient though! I really like art that repurposes what otherwise would become trash. I find it poetic that the words of a book, esp. religious ones in this case, is used to form words that my speak of other things, in relation […]
What Does The Perfect Mobile Interface Look Like? (Don't Ask Siri) | Fast Company
via fastcompany.com …. As promising as each of these technologies may be, none completely solves the mobile interface dilemma. On our portable devices, it’s still too difficult to input large piles of text, to work with complex graphics, or to otherwise manipulate data as we’re used to on our desktops. “In many ways, this is […]
Media Queries
via mediaqueri.es Dangerous… I can see hours of fun checking out these responsive web sites! As Tommy Lewis @tommylee suggested humorously, great for a date! Lol…
Themia Theme : InkThemes – How to show full posts in the Blog Page
I see that quite a few folks have also been seeking the answer to: HOW TO SHOW FULL BLOG POSTS within the main BLOG PAGE. I like many of you searched through the support forum and have found contradicting partial solutions suggested by the support staff. None of which actually solves the requested solution we […]
Themia Theme : InkThemes – double post thumbnails/images
For those of you who updated the Themia theme recently, you may have noticed now blog posts will show double the images all of a sudden. It seems really odd that someone would change the code to do so. I actually suspect the support company they use, if this was thrown in to make work […]
Influxinsights » mad men teaches us how to have an engaging conversation
via influxinsights.com That’s pretty ingenious, engaging the viewers of MadMen with an upcoming episode, as if we were brought back in time. Love it!
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Free WaveGuide Seminar: Developing Cross Platform Apps with HTML5 Mar 28 – Vancouver HTML5 Meetup Group
Looking forward to attending this seminar, to learn more about HTML5, at the very least to keep up to date with it’s capabilities, even if I’m not a coder or web designer. Last summer after attending the HTML5 Meetup, I realized how much fun can be had by designers and developers with HTML5, how it […]
My Competitive Advantage: I Hire Artists – ChrisAshworth.org
My Competitive Advantage: I Hire Artists – ChrisAshworth.org. When I read the above article the first time, via my friend, <a href=”http://rachaelashe.com/2011/03/07/hire-me-hire-an-artist/”>Rachael Ashe</a>’s website, it had me feeling emotional. Second time around, it still pulls at my heart strings. His observations acknowledged how I often felt whenever my work overran my creative needs. I am an […]
Apathy and exclusivity…
Activist Dave Meslin argues that people often care, and that apathy is often the result of social systems actively obstructing engagement and involvement. He describes various obstacles that keep people from knowing how or why they might get involved in something. Meslin focuses on design choices that unintentionally or intentionally exclude people. via wikipedia.com Reading […]
Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
via boxesandarrows.com This one is for me, learning more about the Agile Process, as in my UX experiences in a different industry, Agile isn’t the common word in development of products. So much to learn, love it 🙂
Case study of agile and UCD working together – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
via boxesandarrows.com Great case study example showing the holistic workflow and methodologies used in the redesign and development of a large scale website.