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6 Things To Know About Video For The Web - Part 1
February 18, 2009 - Video on the web is showing up in more and more places all the time. It's also easier to capture and with mobile decices, web cams and hand held cams. What we can see from this is that it's something that is here to stay. For those of us responsible for putting it up on the web…
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Mrch Is Shrtct Mnth: Learning Web Design Shortcuts
February 27, 2009 - Like Mindy before me, I pledged I would speed up my workflow this year using keyboard shortcuts. Web design is an interface-intensive profession: we use 3+ programs at once and navigate between dozens of folders on an average project. When designing a comp, I use over 50…
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Viget Flash Mob: 1” Buttons
March 9, 2009 - On occasion, the designers at Viget reserve four hours out of their busy days and work feverishly to create a project that is outside of their daily web design routines. We call this excercise a "Design Flash Mob." We have a running list of ideas that we all contribute to,…
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New Technologies That Blow My Mind
March 16, 2009 - The future will not only be filled with silver jump suits and blue hair, but some pretty incredible digital experiences as well. A few weeks ago, I read/watched a cool Razorfish post about the Surface Table Gestural Interfaces they're working on with the MS surface tables. Last…
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Practical Sorcery with irb
March 30, 2009 - When you run irb, the Ruby REPL, it loads the Ruby script at ~/.irbrc, if it exists. My .irbrc file has gotten kind of big lately, and the tricks it adds to my shell are great, so I thought I’d pull it apart and show you the magic inside. Includes and setup require 'pp'…
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Portfolio Reviewin’, Thoughts and Ideas for Design Students
April 8, 2009 - Deep in the heart of Georgetown lies the Center for Digital Imaging Arts (CDIA) an extension of Boston University's applied arts school. I was recently asked to participate in a portfolio review of some of the school's upcoming web design graduates along with representatives…
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The Shackles of Simplicity
June 16, 2009 - Simplicity has been at the core of the web's philosophy of design for the last five years. Whether it's a major part of the visual approach, with large amounts of negative space, simple color palettes, and a focus on strong typography; the interface approach, with fewer things…
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Designing a Custom Flash Player for Brightcove
June 23, 2009 - ABOUT BRIGHTCOVE Brightcove offers a wide range of players that will plug right into your site. Its players range from a video window with basic controls to players with tabbed navigation, playlists, related videos, and keyword search. These players are easy to build into your…
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What To Expect When You’re Expecting CSS/HTML Handoff
June 26, 2009 - Picture this: You're a designer at Fancy Design Firm, charged with building out a design that another group will implement. You might never meet this group, you don't know how adept they are with buildout, and you're not entirely sure what they'll want to do with your CSS/HTML.…
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A Designer's Guide To Accessibility and 508 Compliance
July 6, 2009 - The words "accessibility" and "508 compliance" are thrown around frequently these days, but as a designer it can be unclear how the practice directly pertains to your role in visual design. Sorting through all the hubbub, I would like to take the opportunity to clarify…