The Rise of Flash Video, Part 2
Posted on May 29, 2008 06:00:56 AM
This will happen to you: Your client calls and informs you that she is seeing a lot of video on the web these days and, that she just happens to have a few she would like to put up on her site as well. There was a time when this request would have struck fear into the hearts of most web developers, but today’s web is a different place; the ubiquity of the Flash player in the marketplace has made this task possible. As I pointed out in Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Flash, Part, Rise, Video15 MySpace Layout Resources That Don’t Suck Like The Rest Of Them
Posted on May 23, 2008 01:40:50 PM
Anyone who’s been to MySpace knows that a majority of the profiles look like something out of Geocities. Who hasn’t seen a profile with sparkling text, tiling images or black text on a dark background?
These 15 MySpace layout resources give you downloadable themes from professional designers as well as supply you with the knowledge needed to create your own custom design. Use these to capture your Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 8217, Layout, Like, MySpace, Resources, Rest, Suck, that, ThemSouth By South West Sketchnotes
Posted on Apr 12, 2008 09:49:25 PM
For the last few years, Milwaukee-based designer Mike Rohde has been diligently taking notes at the various conference sessions he attends. But Rohde’s notes are slightly different than you or I might take—the inveterate doodler fills page after page of his moleskine notebooks with quotes, sketches, and soundbites; creating a unique record and feeling for the speaker and topic.
Digital Web spoke to Mike about his Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Sketchnotes, South, WestA Designer’s Guide to Making Your Own Stock Photography (for non-photographers)
Posted on Apr 6, 2008 08:40:23 AM
As a designer, making your own stock photography means that you'll be approaching photography from an idea of a finished concept. This isn't the way most photographers think. Most commercial photographers shooting for a design firm, need instructions from an art director. Photographers need to know what your client wants. They want to know what you know and share in your vision. This can be an interesting process with you as art director and Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Designer, Guide, Making, photographers, Photography, Stock, your10 Reasons Clients Don’t Care About Accessibility
Posted on Mar 17, 2008 05:03:13 PM
Working as an accessibility consultant in an IT company is a very frustrating job right now. Highly publicized lawsuits and deep-rooted accessibility myths leave us with a lot to explain when the final product does not really help visitors. Our clients simply don’t care about accessibility as much as we’d like them to, and there are several reasons for that.
Reason 1: It’s the Law But There’s None to Follow##2## Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: About, Accessibility, Care, clients, ReasonsHuman Experience
Posted on Jan 28, 2008 10:52:33 PM
Lately I have been working at Animal Logic with a great team and an excellent team leader. Andy Polaine from Antirom fame has pointed out many of his views on interactivity to me, and much has rubbed off.
There has been a lot of talk about technology and human experience. Many people believe that technology is bad in the sense that it is making us more and more detached from humanity. The web has much to do with technology. Take Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Experience, HumanFlash Player 9: Bringing HD Flash Video to the Web
Posted on Jan 25, 2008 10:15:48 AM
At a recent Adobe MAX conference, I was quietly sitting in a comfy chair absorbing the information overload, when an attendee from my session earlier that day plunked herself down beside me and shared her own Flash video story. Her clients, seeing all of those gorgeous sites out there that use Flash video, wanted to jump on the bandwagon, too. They said what I have heard all too often: “I have the stuff on DVD.”
Tags: Bringing, Flash, Player, VideoForms, usability, and the W3C DOM
Posted on Jan 25, 2008 01:59:28 AM
Despite the specification having been around for nearly five years and a workable level of browser support for about three, the average Web developer doesn’t yet have a clear view of what the W3C DOM can do for Web sites.
Sure, in those five years manygood and bad, technical and less technicalintroductions have been written, but these all focus on implementation details. That is understandable—you first Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Forms, UsabilitySite Planning, the Red-Headed Stepchild of the Web
Posted on Dec 22, 2007 04:09:37 AM
The Audience Is the End... What About the Beginning?
This month's issue of Digital Web drives home two points:
Keep it simple, stupid.It's the audience, stupid.
The point to this tutorial is not to reinforce these messages in the same style that you see in the rest of the issue. Had I wanted to do that, I could have written about UI design, white space, or "ommitting needless words."
Those are easy.
What hasn't Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Headed, Planning, Site, StepchildFast Cars, Fast Food, Fast Access
Posted on Dec 3, 2007 11:48:10 AM
I tend to sit in my own corner and do what I enjoy doing without too much concern with the latest fad, style or trend. Yet, every so often I do look around the web to see what others are doing, and what, if any, benefit this might have for me. So it was that I came to pick up a copy of "Flash Web Design, the art of motion graphics" by Hillman Curtis1. On page 01:08, Mr. Curtis talks briefly about Multitasking Attention Deficit (M.A.D.), and Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Access, Cars, Fast, Food