Just sharing a great article I found on Digg about Web Design.
I for one truly believe that typography is a key element of interface design that goes sorely neglected. Any way you can focus on "clarity", you will also receive a strong notch up on ease of use and engagement.
So last night Dan Saffer of Adaptive Path gave a solid talk for the NYC IxDA monthly event and even demonstrated through exercise about the need for us to change the ways we communicate our designs. At the end of the talk someone asked about how the methods he was ...
As more followup to the presentation that Bill Scott and I gave at UI11 and are giving at the Web Applications Summit in January, I thought I'd point people to this new tool I learned about.
Altia has created a new Photoshop plug-in, called PhotoProto, that helps people make prototypes. ...
October 23rd 2006
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organizing IxD
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Today the treasurer of IxDA, Greg Petreoff, had the honor of announcing our new pledge drive to make some dough before the end of year to support IxDA's project donahue initiative.
Project Donahue is exciting because for the first time in the UX community an organization is putting its resources behind ...
The UI11 conference isn't even over yet, and UIE announces their next event: Web Application Summit in Monterey, CA, where the Bill & Dave show will do a repeat performance and much more.
The event will be January 21-23, 2007.
See you at Canary Row and the home of Steinbeck!.
October 12th 2006
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ajax
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Well, I should put my money where my mouth is. I told about 250+ people this week that they should learn to code to better communicate their designs to engineers. Well, this resource came my way from the deverloperWorks @ IBM: Mastering AJAX.
So far there are 7 parts available. I ...
October 12th 2006
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ajax
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I think about 4 times people asked about Accessibility when I was at UI11 this past week presenting a workshop and short talk about designing AJAX and other RIAs. It just so happens that today, Access Matters, an Accessibility Blog, posted this timely article about AJAX and making it work ...
October 10th 2006
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name change
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Just letting people know that now that my commitments to UI11 are over, I'm going full steam ahead with my new name. I'll no longer be incorporating the "(Heller)" in my name official or otherwise. I'm just henceforth to be "David Malouf" ... Ok, you can call me Dave if ...
Designing Powerful Web Applications with AJAX and Other RIAs - Full Day Workshop
UI11 - Cambridge, MA - October 9, 2006
What is "Rich"? Why do "Rich"? - 90 Min. Talk
UI11 - Cambridge, MA - October 109, 2006
There will be audio of the 90min. talk available soon. I'll post at an update ...
All the world today is in a panic about "Innovation" and how "Design Thinking" is the cure all for all of business woas; especially those businesses trying to stay afloat in this rapid idea reproduction economy. I think this is GREAT! I believe that design thinking as a description of ...
October 8th 2006
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RIAs
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Slideshare.net is a beta site (invitation only) that allows people to share easily their presentations with others. Tag them, for others to relate and thus find them, and then present it. It converts from MS PPT and other presentation software into Flash so that the animations are clickthroughs are retained.
You ...
The story goes like this. I've been on the lookout for a free easy to use, fit all my needs RSS Feed Reader that was online (i.e. hosted and not downloaded). I have never found anything (didn't look TOO hard) that could do all I got from Mozilla Thunderbird, so ...