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On Web Standards and rounded corners

October 25th, 2009

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 [...]

Change is in the air

May 31st, 2009

In recent years, there has been an essence of ongoing change leading to some big changes. The internet is perhaps the biggest factor, if not the primary factor of this as it has been changing entire industries and affecting our lives more than ever before. And based on this and other factors, everyone seems to [...]

The self-evolving website

March 6th, 2009

 
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 [...]

Mix 06 Unmixed

June 11th, 2006

Even though it’s been almost three months since Microsoft’s Mix 06 conference, I finally had the time recently to go through the show’s sessions archive. Here are some things I found particularly interesting about what Microsoft is doing.
Channel 9 and Mix
The theme of the show was ‘a 72 hour discussion’ and was not only for [...]

The Widescreen era

February 8th, 2006

Did you know that movies originally started out in the same format as the television? But after a short time, they went to being filmed in the widescreen format we are used to today. This was due to a combination of being a more creative way to film and better for presenting to a theater [...]

True to life

November 30th, 2005

Who are true designers and what’s their role in the world? Referencing Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling, Luke Wroblewski of Functioning Form sums it up pretty nicely.

Why interface design?

November 20th, 2005

I’ve always worked with more than one area involved in designing/developing a website. My main focus, however, has always been on the initial design of the website. It’s what I consider the most crutial part of the process.
The design defines how the product or service is viewed on an emotional level. The [...]

Beginnings

November 17th, 2005

There quite a few beginnings here for me. The two big ones being this site’s release and my venture into the world of blogging. The other is more of a personal achievement of getting on the right track towards future goals.
This new website, DistinctiveQuality.com, will showcase some of my design work as well as [...]