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, [...]

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 [...]

Macromedia Adobe Flash continues to bring a lot to the web in form of interactivity and animation, which seems to be in demand more and more recently. Since I started using Flash, the ability that attracted me most was the use of animation. We’ve seen all kinds of animation on the web done in Flash. [...]

During the second meeting of Refresh Phoenix, a local community of designers and developers, it occurred to me that there is a noticable devide between (formerly Macromedia) Flash fans and (don’t call it) AJAX fans. While both seem to be using the technologies for similar purposes, each group sticks by their prefered method. While it [...]

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 [...]