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Iminlikewithyou and Game Design in the Web

A friend of mine pestered me to join a new site about a month ago. I had heard of it. From what I had heard, it was a new dating site with the worst name: iminlikewithyou (iilwy). As in “I’m not in love with you but maybe I’m in like with you.” The name alone [...]

At TED

Day two of TED conference (where I’m uploading pictures as soon and often as I can). This conference was meant to be the change of pace from the many design conferences I tend to go to. TED stands for Technology Entertainmend Design and has just an incredible speaker lineup (which I really can’t do justice). [...]

Restart Now? OK, How About Now?

What genius at Microsoft decided it would be a good idea, after an automated Windows Update, to not only give you a “we’re going to restart your computer in 5 mins if you don’t stop us” dialog but have it come up every 15 mins or so with no recourse to stop it?!?! So if [...]

Portfolio

Monday marked the point where I was officially 30% of the way through my course. Luckily, that doesn’t correspond to chronological proportions. In two weeks, I’ll be 60% of the way through! Basically, I spent the last week(end) getting almost no sleep putting together a 110 page “portfolio” that showcased papers and such that I’d [...]

Back from Eastern Europe

I just returned from CHI in Vienna, Austria last week, which is probably the largest conference for the industry that I work in. OK/Cancel and going back to school has made me realize how little I knew of the industry as a whole so this experience was very different from the last CHI I went [...]

New From Adobe!

What is it with Adobe’s Photoshop series? EVERY new version, they seem to redefine their File menu. Of all the menus, that one should be the easiest to keep consistent. O for opening a file, S for saving, right? Last time, Adobe changed the recently opened files to be in a submenu of File. Worse [...]

Worth 1000 Words

Kathryn and I are both into taking photos. I don’t consider myself even good enough to be called an amateur photographer because even that title seems to imply a certain level of skill and commitment these days. Nevertheless, we like taking good pictures and spending the time to compose good shots. Worth1000.com has photography contests [...]

All Hail the Horizontal Scroll, it is Dead

Observant and regular visitors will note a few subtle changes in the blog design. A basic version of the photos section is up. It uses Sony’s Imagestation which I highly recommend because they have unlimited space and high rez viewable pics. Got rid of the calendar. Added a Recent Comments section so you can comment [...]

Prioritization

At one of the clients I work at, they prioritize their tasks by “Must”, “Should”, “Could” and “Want”. Using this system, I’ve prioritized my items (italicized items are new items): SHOULD – Main blog area redesign (photoshop and paper) SHOULD – Redesign implemented in html and css MUST – Photos section WANT – Highlighted photos [...]

Project Plan

I have returned from Austin and South Padre Island. I’m sure Kathryn will be posting a nice trip summary as she’s become a bit of a travel journalist. In other news, I am working on a few projects but I won’t go into details until I have more to show for it. One project I [...]

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