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Designing for Windows 8
I just attended a webinar given by Seattle’s Blink Design Studio. I have Windows 8 on a couple of my computers and I tend to avoid them because Windows 8 seems to me, so far, to run music and...
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Handling User Input Errors
At the ATM today, I made a mistake and a really great thing happened. I was there to withdraw a small amount of cash. I started entering in the dollar amount $60, but this was a mistake because the...
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Designing with Agile
I’ve recently been making plans to work with a team of agile software developers. Here’s a great 10 minute video, by Hamid Shojaee that reviews the key points of the scrum implementation of agile and...
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Explaining Metaphors and Affordance
Here’s a nice piece called “Affordances and Metaphors”, from Joel Spolsky, maker of Trello. This old blog post, from 2000, does an especially good job of explaining affordance. Well-designed objects...
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Linking Print to Digital
I know its decadent, but there is something special about a great printed piece. There are so many papers, inks and designs and so much that can happen when you skillfully combine them. I love going to...
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Turning Ideas into Apps
Todd Moore’s 2012 book Tap, Move, Shake Turning Your Game Ideas into iPhone & iPad Apps is a great book if you want to build an App for Apple devices. Here are some of the steps that are detailed...
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Combining Art and Technology
You can do amazing things when you combine art and technology. Soso Limited’s piece called Patterned By Nature uses LCD glass, animation and sounds to represent natural occurrences like raindrops,...
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Designing Everyday Things
Don Norman gave a great talk and signed his book http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0465067107 at the Los Angeles User Experience (LAUX) meeting, November 2013. NEW VIDEO –...
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Thinking about Thumbs
Luke Wroblewski tweeted 3 links about Designing for the thumb: 1. Designing for Thumb Flow features video that shows how you use polar with one thumb. 2. Scott Hurff explains how the “thumb hook”...
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Prototyping Google X Style
Tom Chi gave a great talk, “Rapid Prototyping X, Methods and Debugs”, at the Dec 2014 Hack.Summitt about inventing Google Glass. He described the method to the madness (laser projected keyboards,...
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Collaborating and Creating Digitally
Check out Adobe Education Exchange if you’d like to learn more about all things digital creation! Adobe’s Education Exchange, known by the instructors as “edex” is great resource for teachers,...
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Animating for Impact
Read Rachel Nebor’s Article “Web Animation at Work” if you’d like to see ways animation indicates: Causality Feedback Relationships Progression Physics Transition Be sure to follow Rachel’s hyperlinks....
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Designing Future Healthcare
Dr. Eric Topol, just came out with the book- “The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands”. If you are interested in how healthcare is changing (for better or worse) in the...
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Teaching and Learning
Check out Adobe Education Exchange if you’d like to learn more about all things digital creation! Adobe’s Education Exchange, known by the instructors as “edex” is great resource for teachers,...
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Animating for Impact
Read Rachel Nebor’s Article “Web Animation at Work” if you’d like to see ways animation indicates: Causality Feedback Relationships Progression Physics Transition Be sure to follow Rachel’s hyperlinks....
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Designing Future Healthcare
Dr. Eric Topol, just came out with the book- “The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands”. If you are interested in how healthcare is changing (for better or worse) in the...
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Teaching and Learning
Check out Adobe Education Exchange if you’d like to learn more about all things digital creation! Adobe’s Education Exchange, known by the instructors as “edex” is great resource for teachers,...
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Animating for Impact
Read Rachel Nebor’s Article “Web Animation at Work” if you’d like to see ways animation indicates: Causality Feedback Relationships Progression Physics Transition Be sure to follow Rachel’s hyperlinks....
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Designing Future Healthcare
Dr. Eric Topol, just came out with the book- “The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands”. If you are interested in how healthcare is changing (for better or worse) in the...
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