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• 10.13.11
  Dear Kerning Game, A Love Letter Design, inspiration | (0)

  I played the kerning game a few days ago and then I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The game wasn’t just good, it wasn’t just cool because it was done in HTML5 (ok, fine, that made me giddy) and, sure, it was touch enabled…but that wasn’t it. This game was about kerning, KERNING. Type nerds, print designers adore analyzing every possible flaw, the tiniest spaces between symbols, but I would never dare admit my love for it in mixed company. My dev buddies might just laugh and tell me to go make them a t-shirt, right? I needed to know who ...
• 03.21.11
  VizNotes Visual Note-Taking Workshop Design, inspiration, sketching, VizThink | (0)

  Austin was lucky enough to have a pre-sxsw workshop on visual note taking put on by two of my favorite industry folks, Dave Gray and Sunni Brown. The class was put on by MJ Broadbent the current brain behind the VizThink community. Here’s a bit of what I learned, which certainly doesn’t hold a candle to being there in-person, but it’s a taste. - Dave Gray: ‘The human brain is better at images…much harder to forget them.’ - Visual alphabet (top section of the graphic on the left) is a point, line, angle and so on. If you can draw those 12 ...
• 03.04.11
  Upcoming Conference Fun Austin, conference, Event, inspiration, SxSW, UX | (0)

  SXSW Tons of good panels and people coming to Austin this year. There is an almost mind bending amount of content, but here are some of the great stuff I’m looking forward to: - Chris Bishop n’ co – Designing Stuff Kids Will Use and Love - Jess Hemerly n’ crew – Music & Metadata: Do Songs Remain The Same? - Branden Hall, Rick Barraza and Thomas Lewis – HTML5? The Web’s Dead, Baby - Chris Bernard and esteemed panelists – Bootstrap Underdog? Mainstream Overlord? Or Both? - From Art of the Title Sequence – Title Design Screening MIX11 Always great content and a kind of ‘rock ...
• 01.05.11
  Make Pretty and Helpful: Visualizing User Data data viz, Design, inspiration, UX | (0)

  For the last month I have spent 30 to 40 minutes each morning with the New York Times. Not the online version but a real paper, inky fingers and all. It’s been wonderful! Afterward, I felt more articulate, more awake. Historically I have always taken those first foggy moments to read email and online news while my coffee brings me to life. But later when I’d try to recall what I had read or where, it was a struggle. The daily dose of digital reading seemed to blur into an indecipherable pile of mush. Maybe I should stick with ...
• 11.09.10
  UX is Game Theory Design, design process, Games, innovate, inspiration, Prototyping, UX | (0)

  Daily product discussions heard around every experience design table; balancing motivations and behavior against the business objectives, reading system and data structure to better understand the needs that drive desired results, dissecting user tasks to make them easier and more satisfying to accomplish, building authentic conversations that reduce the barriers built by the old ranks of business. This is the rather complicated business of design, a business that still seems to be missing key players (I am looking at you CFO, CTO, CEO, COO. Innovation needs you.). Neutral, common ground is needed. Enter the undeniable link between user experience and ...
• 09.13.10
  Homage to Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus Cognitive Surplus, innovate, inspiration, Technology, UX | (0)

  I’m about half way through Clay Shirky’s new book, ‘Cognitive Surplus’ and I have noticed his writing wrapped in story inspires me to sketch it’s themes. The one I’ve included for this post, illustrates the example Shirky uses to clarify the idea that scarcity (rather than abundance), is much easier to understand. If a product or service becomes rare, then we simply charge more for it. Done. A newly abundant thing means we change how we use it; think smashing open your radio, tinkering with the wiring, hackeroo style. Clay paints the perfect example, parents/grandparents ‘announcing’ the long distance ...
• 04.01.10
  The “Ignite Your Venture” Webcast Series Career, Event, inspiration | (0)

  Do you have a great business idea but don’t know where to start?  Do you have questions about the process of creating a start-up business but never knew who to ask/  Just curious what the big deal is with the start-up side of technology??  We are proud to introduce a free, new ...
• 04.01.10
  Experience Design by The Flaming Lips Design, inspiration | (0)

  Taking a peek into other industries to see how they delight and inspire loyal audiences is one area that everyone could benefit from, no matter who you are. I have always admired The Flaming Lips live act; the dancing Santas, copious amounts of confetti, balloons and a light and projection setup that even Peter Gabriel would envy, is simply brilliant. Looking at the show from the lens of an experience designer, here are the things that I thought everyone could utilize. 1. Set the stage Right before the concert began, Wayne Coyne, the lead singer, came out and spoke to the audience. ...
• 02.16.10
  What Could Be More Fun Than a Redesign?! Design, inspiration, Prototyping | (0)

  It’s time. So what’s cooking, you may ask? Fun stuff; interviews, special guests, robots,  reviews and, as always, more sketching and prototyping goodies. I will be taking suggestions as well. If there is a topic or idea you would like to hear about, shoot me a DM @ssummers. In the meantime, I will get the new redesign up and going right quick.
• 11.06.09
  Evolving. It is what we are built to do. give back, honesty, innovate, inspiration, teamwork, Technology, UX | (0)

  Change feels risky, while existing paths seem safe no matter how dated they are. Things change; it happens nearly every nanosecond in tech. The only problem with this constant reality is our ability to move with the tide in ways that benefit the profession; design, UX, development or otherwise. We get mired in the details, side swiped by edge cases and wrapped up in defining things that won’t matter in 6 months. So let’s do some house-keeping shall we? Glass houses make better stories If we can track, articulate and make clear measureable meaning out of what we do and how we ...

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