Being a mere lightweight in the world of development, I don’t read as deeply into application methodologies as some. However, I’ve been paying a lot of attention to service-oriented architecture recently: where I’ve used it in the past, where I’ll use it in the future.
It struck me that our staff restaurant at work is a […]
I’m no artist, and design is not my thing (this site is testament to that), but in the craze over the 2012 olympics logo (which looks like our old patio on speed), people might overlook the fact that the London 2012 landing page is even worse. It’s a complete horror featuring an eye-bleeding swatch of […]
15 things in 15 minutes
Steve Pearce from Poke London
Good design - fiddle until you get it right. It’s about giving the user pleasure (ooh, err)
1) Our home
Google Earth - like science fiction! Getting better resolution too. Archive, also. In schools.
Crisis in Darfur - puts events in perspective by putting them on a map - closer […]
Thoughts from a designer
Jon Harris, User Experience evangelist
Microsoft:
hard to use
unintuitive
ugly
designed by Engineers
Rich vs reach - choosing the right experience
Windows Presentation Foundation - allows designers and develoeprs to work together
Vista gadgets
ASP.NET AJAX - framework, hmv digital uses this
Silverlight - rich interface stuff
Expression studio - Expression Media has nice transcoding things
Designers and developers speak different languages, apparently […]
Standards vs Flash
Florian Schmitt, (Hi-ReS!) & Jeff Croft, (World Online)
Jeff - Two random reasons for using web standards
Reason 2 - needs to provide tons of content presented in a way users expect
they need to learn how to navigate the site
eg marketplace site for laurence, kansas
Florian - uses flash
Reason 1 - knows nothing about the web, […]
User Centered Design for Evolving Products
Ryan Freitas, Adaptive Path
What Ryan does: introduce teams to design principles that can improve the quality of their process and their products.
plazes.com - geolocation service. Website is a bit of a mishmash. Not streamlined enough. Need to evolve.
1) Evolution and product design
“The web is moving away from big sites with […]
Branding and identity
Rei Inamoto, AKQA
Impressive portfolio…
AKQA - huge company - SF/LDN/NY/DC/Shanghai 200 people in London, 500 people globally
Don’t think of themselves as designers etc
They create ideas that solve client’s problems - slightly bigger perspective.
26% of people remember what they hear
43% of people remember what they see
67% of people remember what they experience - something which […]
Designing for developers
Andy Clarke, Stuff and nonsense
http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/downloads/fowd.zip
“it doesn’t matter the colour of the car, but what goes on beneath the bonnet” - billy bragg - a lover sings
Sums up the divide between visual designers and developers
Top Gear cool wall but for websites
Are Yahoo cool? No.
Yahoo are moving up to the sub-zero category apparently, Andy Clarke […]
Creating award-winning online marketing campaigns
Joshua Hirsch, Minister of Technology @ Big Spaceship
Not a web design shop
Not a flash shop
Not a production house
Not an ad agency
‘Digital creative agency’
Don’t pigeon-hole people into roles. [a LOT of time emphasising this]
Good old-fashioned storytelling / creating an experience around a brand
Guitar hero in the office is the key to their […]
Integrated design across different media
Nat Hunter, airside
LemonJelly
Director of airside is in LemonJelly so good thing.
Record sleeves - way to engage people through interaction
Good to surprise people, give them something they don’t expect (hopefully nice things)
Nice moment when you find the CD
Live shows experience - given a lucky bag
- bingo warmup pencil
- balloons - visual spectacle, […]
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