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Archive for April 2008

IA Summit: Inspiration From the Edge

In Design Discourse, Game On, Presentations on 16 April 2008 tagged Design Discourse, iasummit, iasummit08, iasummit2008, poetpainter, stephenpanderson with 2 comments

I’ve often believed that the best designers don’t get their ideas and inspiration from the place they work. As a designer that works in the social web space, I do look at a large number of new sites that come through the pipeline for inspiration. However, I also am a big advocate of experimenting with [...]

IA Summit: Content Page Design Best Practices

In Design Discourse, Presentations on 16 April 2008 tagged content, Design Discourse, iasummit, iasummit08, iasummit2008, lukew with 1 comment

Luke Wroblewski of Functioning Form and Yahoo! describes a framework for designing content on a site.

He begins with a discussion on how we currently optimize for sites - by studying their hierarchy and how pages relate to each other within the site. However, the site does not live on its own but rather as a [...]

History of Video Games 1972-2007

In Game On, I've Journal on 5 April 2008 with 3 comments

When we visited my parents in February, it occurred to my dad that both my brother Jamie and I now work in the video game industry. Jamie started his own company, Klei Entertainment, whilst I joined an early stage startup for gamers called Raptr. My dad said,

I let you guys play too many video games [...]