By aprilholle | design, speaker reviews, user experience
When the detail is put into these little corners where often it is overlooked by designers and never given a second thought to consumers, something magical happens, a clever little bit of “secret” is shared between designer and consumer, both are enriched by the process
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By aprilholle | design, speaker reviews, user experience
Has web design transcended into it’s full potential? If you ask Dan Willis of Sapient, he’ll say it’s just print in disguise. He believes that while web design certainly has just begun to blossom into the medium that interactivity the world wide web has to offer, it’s not quite there yet. Even as Web 3.0
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, accessibility, design, flash, self-reflection, seo, speaker reviews, user experience
I presented at AIGA Arizona Say Anything on November 10th. Here is the write up of the talk based on the slides that were presented that evening
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By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, design, project management, speaker reviews
Alright so I thought that I’d have time between sessions and parties to really capture everything I’ve done while I was at my first SXSW, unfortunately, that was not the case. However! I took really great notes, so sit back and relax as I tell my story of one girl, one conference and thousands of
Tags: client-relations, client-relationships, clients, informative content, Integrum-Technologies, Jason-Santa-Maria, Jeffrey-Zeldman, Liz Danzico, Props and Drops, respect, SXSW, Twitter
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By aprilholle | new technologies, speaker reviews, things to do
Great Refresh meeting last night over at Inza Coffee. There were about 10 to 15 5 minute demos of new and exciting web projects coming out of Phoenix. Some of the highlights were: Show in a Box – If you’re interested in starting a video blog, but you’re not technically savvy, check out Show in
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By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, new idea!, seo, speaker reviews, things to do, viral marketing
So I got to sit down with Brian Shaler yesterday during the Phoenix BarCamp and really pick his brain regarding his recent boost in popularity on the net. I’ve been on a big personal branding kick and I’m trying to talk to anyone who’s someone to ask them how they “did it”. Not necessarily to
Tags: advertising & marketing, applications, April-Holle, artistic-expression, artistic-work, barcamp, barcamp-Phoenix, brand-identity, branding, Brian-Shaler, business, business-communication, Chuck-Reynolds, communication, Crappy-Graphs, created-in-flash, digg, Google, google-results, inspiration, interactive-flash, interests, internet-stars, loyalty-programs, new idea!, personal-brand, personal-branding, personal-experiment, personal-photography, personal-relationships, personal_investment, phoenix-lifestyle, phoenix-web, Phoenix-web-events, rebranding, Search-Engine-Optimization, search-term, seo, ShalerJump, Social-Networking, social-networks, speaker reviews, StumbleUpon, things to do, Twitter, user-interaction, video-blogging, viral marketing, viral-activity, viral-video, viral-videos, web-broadcast, web-community, web-design-communities, web-design-community, web-design-groups, web-event, web-events, web-groups, web-industry, web-video, web-workshops, web_professionals, web_workers
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By aprilholle | new idea!, new technologies, speaker reviews, technology reviews, things to do
I had a GREAT TIME at the 2008 Phoenix BarCamp today! I was a little… OK maybe more like VERY nervous about having to stand up in front of people and tell them about things that I might have some expertise in. But once I saw that everyone else was just as informal, I got
Tags: barcamp, barcamp-Phoenix, being-open, building-great-teams, building-teams, business, business-communication, business-relationships, business_owner, business_owners, command-and-control, command-and-control-culture, common_sense_approach, communication, company-goals, company-values, company-vision, corporate-culture, corporate_environments, creative-culture, creative-teams, creatives, Derek-Neighbors, employee-investment, employee-moral, employee-values, enjoy-work, enjoying-work, Escape-from-Cubicle-Nation, fun-at-work, fun-work-environments, great-employees, Integrum-Technologies, interests, internal-communication, new idea!, new technologies, open_honest_communication, Pam-Slim, Pamela-Slim, personal-investments, personal-relationships, personal_investment, phoenix, Phoenix-BarCamp, phoenix-lifestyle, Phoenix-web-events, Refresh-Phoenix, speaker reviews, team-building, team-goals, team-management, team-work, technology reviews, technology-conference, things to do, true_interests, web-community, web-workshops, web_industry, web_professionals, web_workers, work-atmosphere, work-environment, working_environment
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By aprilholle | new idea!, speaker reviews, things to do
Alright so at this point everyone has read the 2007 Web Design Survey at A List Apart. If you haven’t, you should… really. This is the first time we’ve ever had a survey for the web industry alone, and while it’s not necessarily scientific, it is a good sampling of the community, nearly 33,000 web
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By aprilholle | new technologies, speaker reviews, viral marketing
I keep forgetting my notebook at work, so eventually you’ll have some good quotes and stats to go along with this post, but I wanted to get it up here before the content became stale. I attended the Facebook Developers Garage in Phoenix, AZ on Wednesday. Overall it was extremely informative. We’ve been on a
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By aprilholle | project management, speaker reviews, user experience
“I don’t want a Jack of All Trades, Master of None. I want “T-Shaped People”, People who have a broad understanding of the whole field (the horizontal part of the T) but then have deep understanding and perspective in one discipline in particular ( the vertical part of the T).”
Tags: Bill-Buxton, broad-technical-understanding, design, microsoft-research, project management, speaker reviews, t-shaped-people, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, ux, ux-design, Web-Design, web-site-design
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