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Javascript Libraries for Designers with Ryan Jeffords and Doug Boude
JavaScript Libraries Like a Swiss-army knife. Allow you to write JavaScript quicker, easier and better. They do not replace JavaScript, they extend it. Extremely light-weight and cross-platform compliant. Most are open source. Help to design an experience. Used to prototype … Continue reading
Adobe Flash Catalyst and Flex for Designers with Rob Huddleston
Books by Rob Huddleston Adobe Flash Catalyst Catalyst is middleware. Start in Illustrator or Photoshop, then pull in project using Catalyst. Convert to Flex project, then go to Flash. Catalyst does have very basic drawing tools and could be used … Continue reading
Developers are from Mars, Designers are from Venus with Chad Udell
What is the difference between us? Let’s start with some generalizations. Developers are killjoys, squashing creativity to make a deadline or taking the easy way out to implement features within an application. Designers are fun, but reckless, they create great work … Continue reading
Designer to Developer Workflow Conference in Kansas City
D2W Sessions Prototyping: A Component for Successful Projects with Chris Griffith The Perfect Prototype with John Farrar Developers are from Mars, Designers are from Venus with Chad Udell Adobe Flash Catalyst and Flex for Designers with Rob Huddleston Turn WordPress … Continue reading
First Impressions – Home page content & design
What is the first impression of a customer who visits your web site? Today, I visited the Prudential home page where I was greeted with the content and imagery below. First impressions of Prudential This guy has a lot of … Continue reading
Visual Design Essentials for Non-Designers with Dan Rubin
Affordance Something should look like what it does. If you over design you can break usability. Rules Fitts’s Law – Bigger buttons are faster. It’s about balance and proportion. Create patterns for margin and padding. Removes arbitrary decisions and ensures … Continue reading
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A Dao of Flexibility – Ethan Marcotte — An Event Apart Seattle 2010
What I sense is a real tension between the web as we know it, and the web as it would be. It’s the tension between an existing medium, the printed page, and its child, the web. And it’s time to really understand … Continue reading
Paranormal Interactivity – Jeremy Keith — An Event Apart Seattle 2010
Iconography is internationalized, but open to misinterpretation. Language & speech is more accurate, barriers still exist. A floppy disk is still the save icon in most applications. Iconography allows you to have a wider reach. Push button, receive bacon. Endearing … Continue reading
Everything Old Is New Again – Eric Meyer — An Event Apart Seattle 2010
I will not be talking about fonts. Jeff Veen is here and is the guy to talk to about fonts. I still think New Century Schoolbook is all that and actually still use Arial. “These are what I refer to … Continue reading
Anatomy of a Design Decision – Jared Spool — An Event Apart Seattle 2010
Gray’s Anatomy, it has never been out of print. A look at details, a study of the structure or internal workings of something. The decisions we make have a profound impact on user experience. Jared arngren.net vs etsy.com. Havenworks.com vs … Continue reading