MC reports on Zeldman

MC reports on Zeldman    

By Kevin

Original author Marie-Claire Camp Marie Claire and half of our interaction team are attending An Event Apart, down in New Orleans. This dispatch was the first in… We just attended the first presentation here, Jeffery Zeldman’s Understanding Web Design, he’s shared his presentation, and it was really good, he’s decided to share it with attendees, so ask me, if you want to see it. My notes: More

It's a User-Generated World

It's a User-Generated World    

By Kevin

Original author Victor Sirotek More and more companies are realizing there is a lot to be gained by joining the world of user-generated content. Think Facebook or Myspace, but with a model that allows users to submit and potentially monetize their ideas. I can’t help but think that by allowing individuals to create and experiment on a global platform, companies will find that it increases innovation, brand loyalty and can be quite lucrative. More

Metrics of a better experience

Metrics of a better experience    

By Kevin

This past Wednesday, several of us attended a presentation by Michal Lorenc of Google, sponsored by AimWest. It was pretty high level, so while it was nice to hear what they’re doing from the source, we hoped for more depth. Of particular interest was the rapidly evolving Google Apps which we are exploring for our clients, and for our own use. More

Hope for HTML email

Hope for HTML email    

By Scott

Andy shared a link yesterday to the newly launched Email standards initiative. We often get requests to build HTML emails for our clients and if you thought supporting a broad base of browsers was a challenge, try getting proper alignments in Lotus Notes. Writing HTML for email is like stepping back into the 20th century. More

There's design and Design...

There's design and Design...    

By Yang

There is an increasing number of great (and I mean great) tools that help people produce their own designed works. These help-yourself and off-the-shelf design tools and templates are pretty good these days, and getting better. At the AIGA Conference in Denver, I saw a presentation given by Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne, co-founders of Ready-Made Magazine. More

Chumby vs. iPhone

Chumby vs. iPhone    

By Scott

Julie let me play with her Chumby. What’s a Chumby? Well, a Chumby is a little dream machine. A wifi, linux-based widget bean bag with a touch screen and speakers. More

Dubberly’s Concept Maps

Dubberly’s Concept Maps    

By Julie

Among the many lovely folks I had the chance to meet, work with, and learn from at AIGA’s Image, Space, Object camp in Denver this past August was Hugh Dubberly, a designer. His RISD, Yale, Apple, Times-Mirror, Netscape, Academic background have informed his thinky, inclusive, far-reaching mind. More

Agility pendulum

Agility pendulum    

By Kevin

The first user interface projects I worked on were all about the spec. This was about 15 years ago, before the web became the Web, before the dot coms. The approach to software development started and ended with a thick specification document. More

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