Category: Art/Design
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What CEO’s Need to Know About Design
Read this succinct exec summary of what DESIGN is… by the former head of design at Google and Yahoo.
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The Rise of the UX Expert
Hot on the heels of the New York Times article last week, we have this computerworld article about the rise in demand and salaries for UX experts. The article talks about all the usual suspects: Apple, mobile, designer/developer hybrids, the difficulty finding and hiring such folks, and—oddly enough—all the perks that are supposedly being lavished…
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Design Trends: Nouveau Vintage
I can’t resist the trend in design right now. You know the one I’m talking about—everything looks like it’s 1911 all over again. Technically, there are more geometric and grotesque typefaces, more of an emphasis on lettering (and type that looks like lettering), and lots of monochromatic design. I’ve temporarily ditched my site logo mark…
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New York Times: Design more important than Technology
Bits, the New York Times’ technology blog, ran a post today claiming that design is now more important than engineering or technology. I can’t say I was sad to see this article in the New York Times. Of course, the situation is more complex than represented—without tech the design is only an idea—but this is yet…
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A Typography Primer
This is a great little starter tutorial on the considerations for typography. It discusses how size, color, font face selection, and other choices lead to better typographic contrast and readability.
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The Future gets slightly more uniformly distributed
I finally had a chance to check this out and you should too. Minority Report comes to life. As William Gibson says, the future is here, it’s just not uniformly distributed. http://labs.cynergysystems.com/Flash.html
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How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
Just ran into this essay (again) from Douglas Adams (late author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) and had to share it. Great quotes about interactivity: …but the reason we suddenly need such a word [“Interactivity”] is that during this century we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment:…
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Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.
This is great — Chris Bernard passed this on. It’s a “Visual Enforcement Kit” that you can use to tag bad design–ideally at work with wayward coworkers and not on public signage at stripmalls or something. My favorites are “Legible from space” (although that’s rarely a problem on the web) and “Comic Sans is illegal”.…
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designertopia
Registration is now open for the designertopia conference being held in the UK Feb. 1st-2nd of next year. In addition to the expected presentation of Microsoft’s new offerings in this arena, there are some interesting sessions listed such as this one: Young designers integrate technology into everyday objects with humorous, subversive or playful effect. Examples…
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Fireworks XAML Exporter
Infragistics has put together a Fireworks panel that allows exporting to XAML for those of us more used to Fireworks than Photoshop or Illustrator. (Hey, it’s called “PHOTOshop” for a reason and I rarely need to edit photos…) Now there are several choices for those looking to create XAML graphics for use in WPF or…