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Indie Aisle is a project I’ve been working on and off for a couple of years now. This past year however, I really got going with it, spending most of my available time outside of client work. Since the beginning the visual design for it has gone through quite a few iterations that I thought [...]
They may not be as creative as all the sketch-based notes out there, but here’s what I got out of some of the South By Southwest Interactive panels I went to this year:
Sketching:
Mood boarding for getting a good sense of the style
Concept sketching for early stage visualizing of various pieces
Process: Design, research, design, build
Storyboard lifecycles [...]
Two kinds of technologies have in recent months changed my daily habits and how I interact with people: web-based apps and smartphones.
Let’s start with web-based apps. For email I’ve been using Gmail for over three years now and is in my opinion the best email app around, web-based or desktop-based. For keeping track of appointments [...]
I think I agree with this article written ten years ago when the web was still in its infancy. While general web practices make sense, the need for having formal standards seems unnecessary. Website-building technologies have in a lot of ways standardized themselves because of individual developers deciding what is appropriate to use. Looking at the reasons [...]
Since the beginning of humanity, storytelling and our ability to learn is what has set us apart from other species. It almost seems that our interest in stories is in our genes and is what makes our brain work the way it does. I really don’t know if that’s the case, but for the sake [...]
An idea I’ve been thinking about for a while now is self-evolving web design. The self-evolving website would be a combination between having dynamic database-driven content and something similar to smartphone technology where the presentation of content changes based on specific user interaction. It’s difficult to really describe at this point, so I figured I [...]
The GTD method is basically a method for increasing personal organization. To me it meant somewhat more than that as it taught me about how just by changing my thinking about something could lead to really powerful results. If you’re not familiar with the book “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity“, or its [...]
In the last couple of years, I’ve gotten used to subscribing to blogs as my main source of news and information. Mix that with listening to most of my music through a portable player and it’s gotten me thinking about how I consume media.
My primary music player is a Zune, both as a portable device [...]
While going through some of the presentations given at this year’s Mix Conference from Microsoft, I realized that while there was a good amount of effort put into showing how Microsoft is paying attention to the interactive user experience, the main focus seemed to be on advertising and what tools Microsoft provides for advertisers for [...]
“No one is podcasting.”
— Old Media (Newspapers)
“Everyone is podcasting.”
— New Media (Web, generally tech geeks)
Well, both sides are right. The confusion seems to be with the perception of what podcasting is. Podcasting is audio or video content recieved through a subscription, or feed, and then synced, or downloaded, to an iPod.
Now, if you’re like me, [...]