A lot of people think designers just make things pretty. We don’t. First and foremost we solve problems. Problems that usually start with a question and, sometimes, we need to ask ourselves if we’re asking the right question.
Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
UX Team of One Panel (Unedited Notes from Presentation)
These are the unedited notes I took during the SXSW panel. Sub-lists aren’t indented so I’ll need to come back and format later. No guarantee I’ll actually do that so hopefully she’ll publish her presentation.
Put away the computer
Start with a six-up template:
A piece of paper with six thumbnail boxes
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Digging Digg
Lately I’ve been coming across a lot of really cool stuff on the web via a variety of sources. The most recent of which has been Digg. I had heard about Digg for years but a system to rank popular news stories just didn’t interest me that much. I finally took a look at the site and I was an immediate convert. The design category is fantastic.
You know CSS is mainstream when…
I’m a little behind on my reading (and posting) but work has been busy and taking time off for SXSW didn’t help things. I found myself reading the February issue of How while I ate my lunch today. February was the issue on typography. I was surprised to find an article on web typography but even more surprised by what it wrote:
James is inside my head
I don’t know how he did it but somehow he managed to steal this list straight out of my brain. Sure he added a few things like move to New York and picking up music again, but it’s basically my list.
Fanboy Numero Uno
I’m normally a “play-it-cool” kinda guy. I don’t like to fawn over people or even go out of my way to meet them. They’re just people. And if they’re well-known people they probably already have enough of that going on and wouldn’t mind a little bit of personal space.
But a combination of [...]
SXSW Panel: Dogma Free Design
Notes from the panel discussion that is going on right now. I might even liveblog for the first time ever. Yeah, probably not. Click for the shortlist of DOGMA.
SXSW Update
A collection of links, applications (Textmate), presentations (Microformats), and photos (Flickr stream) from the last few days at SXSW 2006. This is a very tiny list — there just are not enough hours in the day for more, but everything on the list is worth checking out.
SXSW Panel: Beyond Folksonomies – Knitting Tag Clouds for Grandma
This panel defined folksonomy and the current state of tagging. During the course of the conversation there were a few suggestions on ways to improve upon the current state of affairs, which is what the panel was really about. I wanted to expand on that part of the conversation.