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I am in no way qualified to write about web design myself, because I'm an acolyte at the feet of the masters. But here are interesting writings from others on the subject. [45 entries.]
Design is Dead says Phillippe Starck
The hilarity of this recent news item is only enhanced by my having just finished watching the movie Art School Confidential mere moments before I read it: BERLIN (AFP) -- Renowned French designer Philippe Starck says he is fed up with his job and plans to retire in two years, in an interview published in a German weekly on Thursday....
Photos from SXSW
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR....
SXSWi 2008 post game analysis
I made it home from Austin last night rather late and went to work this morning. Unlike the trip out, the flight home was rather uneventful. Thank goodness. We didn't get our luggage until late Saturday night, so I basically had two nights without my CPAP machine, which the Airlines had told me to pack in my checked luggage, then...
On the Tarmac for 6 hours for SXSWi
Yesterday we had one of those nightmarish plane trips you hear about on the news every so often. Our American Airlines flight to Austin, Texas had a (supposed to be) short stop in Dallas/Fort Worth airport. The first leg from Indianapolis to Dallas went smoothly, and we got on the plane 1717 for the 36ish minute flight from Dallas to...
SXSW Interactive 2008
I'm getting final stuff prepped to take off for SXSW Interactive 2008 in Austin, Texas tomorrow. I'm going with three of my design team co-workers; one from here in Indianapolis and two from Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. We're staying in the Courtyard Marriott right next to the Austin Convention Center, so we're in the heart of everything, which is...
SXSWi 2008
I'm going to SXSWi this year. Yay! The trick is, though, that we have a big corporate conference in Boston March 2-4th, and then I'm leaving for Austin on March 6th - March 11th. So I'll be home one day in between two trips. Fortunately, Boston will still probably be cold; Austin will be warm. So different sets of clothes,...
All in a day's work
One of the best things about working for a big corporation is that you get to see real life examples of the Peter Principle in action. For example, I actually really received this as a note on a design I'm working on for a couple people very high up in our company: Add a search result to the bottom of...
I try to be like Grace Kelly, But all her looks were too sad
Just getting some color ideas out there for something I'm working on... I could be brown I could be blue I could be violet sky I could be hurtful I could be purple I could be anything you like Gotta be green Gotta be mean Gotta be everything more Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me? Why...
Design Aesthetic of the Indie Developer Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
Design Aesthetic of the Indie Developer Moderator: Michael Lopp, Sr Engineering Mgr - Apple Nick Bradbury, Architect of Client Prods - NewsGator Technologies Inc John Gruber, Raconteur - Daring Fireball Shaun Inman, Designer/Dev - haveamint.com Michael Lopp, Sr Engineering Mgr - Apple...
Web Typography Sucks Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
Web Typography Sucks Mark Boulton, Owner - Mark Boulton Design Richard Rutter, Production Dir - Clearleft Ltd Slides located at: http://webtypography.net/sxsw2007/...
SXSW thoughts
One of the first things I plan to do is take a closer look at Microformats and see where I can mark up my site appropriately. While I was sitting in the panel, I downloaded the firefox operator extension, and I've been playing with it. I also want to get OpenID set up on this site so I can use...
Open Content, Remix Culture and the Sharing Economy Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
Open Content, Remix Culture and the Sharing Economy: Rights, Ownership and Getting Paid Moderator: Eric Steuer, Creative Dir - Creative Commons Eric Steuer, Creative Dir - Creative Commons Glenn Otis Brown, Products Counsel - YouTube John Buckman, Founder and CEO - Magnatune Laurie Racine, Eyespot and DotSub Max Schorr, Publisher & Founding Ed - GOOD magazine...
Bullet Tooth Web Design Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
Bullet Tooth Web Design: Plan Your Web Site like Pulling off a Robbery Andy Clarke - Stuff and Nonsense Ltd Jason Santa Maria, Creative Dir - Happy Cog Studios...
Design Patterns: Defining and Sharing Web Interface Design Languages Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
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2:00pm - The Growth and Evolution of Microformats Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
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1:30AM - The Future of the Online Magazine Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
1:30AM The Future of the Online Magazine (19AB) Moderator: Rufus Griscom CEO, Nerve Media Rufus Griscom CEO, Nerve Media Sean Mills The Onion Ricky Van Veen Editor, CollegeHumor.com Laurel Touby CEO & Founder, mediabistro.com Joan Walsh Editor in Chief, Salon.com...
10:00AM - Get Unstuck: Moving From 1.0 to 2.0 Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
10:00AM Get Unstuck: Moving From 1.0 to 2.0 Moderator: Liz Danzico Director, experience strategy, Daylife Liz Danzico Director, experience strategy, Daylife Kristian Bengtsson Creative Dir, FutureLab Chris Messina Co-founder, Citizen Agency Luke Wroblewski Principal Designer, Yahoo! Jeffrey Zeldman Founder, Happy Cog...
Panels I Plan to see today and tomorrow
Some of these overlap, so I'll have to pick one over the other. But a rough idea. Monday, 12 March 2007 10:00AM Get Unstuck: Moving From 1.0 to 2.0 (18ABCD) 11:30AM The Future of the Online Magazine (19AB) 02:00PM The Growth and Evolution of Microformats (18ABCD) 03:30PM Bullet Tooth Web Design: Plan Your Web Site like Pulling off a Robbery...
Me, giving a testimonial on Firefox
Oh, and while surfing YouTube looking at other's SXSW videos, I found a video of me shot yesterday by the firefox browser people, giving testimonial on the browser from the trade show space. I got a discount on a Firefox T-shirt in exchange. Which just goes to show -- I can talk your damn ear off, but if you stick...
Shadow Garden
I took this video at the frog design party Saturday night of an interesting interactive design project they did....
links for 2007-03-12
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke one of our authors. (tags: books webdev webstandards css sxswi) Soylent Green Stickers Download them and stick them on food at the grocery store. (tags: funny subversive)...
Khoi Vinh on Offending Experts and Pleasing Everybody
After reading Khoi Vinh's thoughts on streamlining web apps to remove features that only a few users need, I think for the most part the choice to make apps work for everyone is a good one. But I have a particular issue with at least one of his examples - 37 Signals, who make Basecamp and Backpack. They have a...
4:05p.m. - Fictional Blogging Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
4:05p.m. - Fictional Blogging Panel Liz Henry, Developer Advocate - Socialtext Odin Soli, Dir Business Dev - Aveso Inc...
11:30a.m. - Making Your Short Attention-Span Pay Big Dividends (SXSWi 2007)
11:30a.m. - Making Your Short Attention-Span Pay Big Dividends Jim Coudal - Coudal Partners Brendan Dawes - Magnetic North awesome panel - my favorite so far, and the one that I'm going to do a presentation on for work. Dawes is a New Riders author, which is one of our publishing entities at work....
10:00a.m. - Every Breath You Take: Identity, Attention, Presence and Reputation Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
Moderator: Christian Crumlish Pattern Detective, Yahoo! Christian Crumlish Pattern Detective, Yahoo! Kaliya Hamlin Super Hero, Identity Woman Mary Hodder CEO, Dabble George Kelly Contra Costa Newspapers Ted Nadeau Founder, Dot Line Inc...
Panel Notes Bad, Food Tasty (SXSWi 2007)
The notes I took for the last three panels are pretty bad, so I don't know that they're worth uploading. The grids panel was pretty visual, and there's a website that covers it. I also went to "ruining the user experience" which wasn't particularly great, and a panel on "tags to riches" that was completely worthless to me. It was...
Rockstar seating
I'm at the Grids Are Good panel, sitting behind Jason Santa Maria. I'm not being a fangirl, though. I'm totally cool....
Keynote - Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users (SXSWi 2007)
Keynote - Kathy Sierra Opening Remarks Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users (SXSWi 2007)...
11:30a.m. - Influence of Art in Design Panel (SXSWi 2007)
Influence of Art in Design Moderator: Dan Rubin, Creative Dir - Webgraph Inc (Superfulous Banter) Dan Rubin, Creative Dir - Webgraph Inc Patrick Haney - Not a Sausage Anton Peck, Web Designer - MultiAd Inc Erik Sagen - Erik Sagen Designs Glenda Sims, Sr Systems Analyst - UT Austin Dave Shea - mezzoblue.com...
10:00a.m. - Emerging Social and Technology Trends (SXSWi 2007)
10:00a.m. - Emerging Social and Technology Trends (SXSWi 2007) Moderator: Laura Moorhead, Sr Editor Culture - Wired Laura Moorhead Sr Editor Culture, Wired Andrew Blum Contributing Editor, Wired Robert Fabricant Exec Creative Dir, Frog Design Eliot Van Buskirk Columnist/Blogger, Wired News Peter Rojas Engadget Daniel Raffel Product Mgr, Yahoo!...
SXSW Friday
The plane trip wasn't bad, aside from the fact that I forgot gum on the first leg and thus had a headache from my ears popping, and I managed to spill Starbucks on myself because the cup lid was borked. Nice. We got in around lunch, checked into the hotel, went to the Irowworks BBQ (highly recommended - definitely eat...
John Edwards is using Act Blue for Fundraising
That's pretty cool that John Edward's campaign website collects contributions by connecting to ActBlue, the website that raises money for democratic candidates. I used Act Blue to solicit campaign contributions during the last election, and found them to be well organized and easy to set up. I like Edward's website as well; very nicely done....
Hey, that's my name!
I was perusing a37 signals blog post from last week on some changes they made to backpack, and noticed in some of the screenshots, the designer Ryan Singer used my name in the mock-up of his new sharing information object. Hee! Apparently, I'm sharing some documents with some folks....
More Designy Goodness
I've tweaked my new design here and there, made some color use more consistent and added some extra flair. There are still some some css layout changes that I need to make to fix a couple of pages, and I have a one-off template or two that need some I must say, I really enjoy looking at my own site...
links for 2006-05-13
FALL OUT BOY // FROM UNDER THE CORK TREE (tags: designCool bands blog) Google Co-op (tags: google social) VOLKSWAGEN's NEW CAR EXPERIENCE (tags: garage vw beetle cool) Google Trends (tags: google trends Statistics) The Movie Clapper Board Generator (tags: generator movies) Strong Bad Emails DVDs and NEW "Everything Else" DVD! (tags: DVD wishlist shopping) PATCHES (tags: wishlist shopping clothes)...
weekend updates
On the design front, I've been restructuring my cascading style sheets for this site; separating layout markup into a separate stylesheet than the one for design (color, font face, size etc.) and doing quite a bit of testing on that. That will help when I finally get my new design in order and start building. So I've been doing quite...
CSS Naked Day
Crap -- I missed CSS Naked Day, which was yesterday. Oh well. It's the day when you take all the CSS design out of your site, for one day. My new site design test pages are CSS Naked, mostly, sort of....
37 Signals Workshop Pictures
The 37 Signals guys put pictures from the workshop we went to out on their Flickr Photostream. And here's a picture of me taking notes....
37 Signals "Getting Real" Workshop
37 Signals is a web application development company based in Chicago, consisting of 7 guys who produce some very successful products. The day-long workshop called "Getting Real" that we attended was all about how they do that -- what methods they have that help them achieve that success with the products they build. Here are all my workshop notes, exported...
Gleacher Center
I'm logged into the wireless in the Gleacher Center for the conference, so of course, I have to test by blog. I should have brought the prescription Ibuprofen. Other than that, the hotel rocks, and we had fun knocking around Chicago last night. We went to Navy Pier and ate dinner, then went to The Alley to shop....
Chicago
I'm heading up to Chicago for the 37 Signals Getting Real Workshop with my co-worker Mike. We're heading out this afternoon, because the workshop is all day tomorrow. Should be really interesting. I love the 37 Signals guys; their blog is one of my daily reads....
Five Things That Inspire Me Creatively
From keith, five several things that inspire me creatively: Clocks Compasses Weather vanes Secret Passageways Wind mills Public Games Subversive Art Graph Paper lightning rods glass eyes ephemera antique medical equipment very well sculptured gardens Phrenology heads anatomical models zeppelins and hot air balloons...
At the feet of the masters
I didn't get to go to the SXSW conference, but many of my favorite designers were there, including Jason Santa Maria, who did a great post-conference round-up on his site. One of the more interesting panels he was on was Holistic Web Design, for which you can find in overview here, along with the PDF of the slides, and the...
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