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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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