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An Open Letter to am/pm

An Open Letter to am/pm

By aprilholle | design, general observation, social media, technology reviews, user experience

My car has been running on empty for almost two days now, I seem to notice that I do this a lot and I chalk it up to my experiences at gas stations as to a reason why I let my life be possibly hindered by running out of gas rather than to take ten

Keeping on Task and Tracking My Time

Keeping on Task and Tracking My Time

By aprilholle | project management, user experience

I’m a big fan of the whole Getting Things Done system, however, I’ve always been a list person. However, in Getting Things Done David mentions my lists: To-do lists make you feel like you have to get everything done on them today, instead of pacing yourself. When I read what David had to say about

Design Easter Eggs: Moo Stickers

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

Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong – Print in Disguise

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

Fear and Mystery of Web Design

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

Links of the Week Vol. 6

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, art forms, links of the week, user experience, viral marketing

Alright, so I’ve been out of the circuit for a while on these, but they’re coming back! Check out these sweet links I gathered up from the interwebs last week. Ever wonder if your boss, and his boss, and their boss has it out for the company? Do some of their managerial tactics don’t make

Happy Webbies

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, new idea!, user experience

Love website design and development? Love the people who make it great? Check out Happy Webbies! It’s like Happy Bunny for web geeks. You can get desktops of your favorite web gurus bashing bad design or better yet, Eric Meyer can span your chest on your very OWN eric meyer happy webbies TEESHIRT! Watch out!

I too bought an iPhone

By aprilholle | life news, new technologies, technology reviews, user experience

As an early Christmas gift to myself I went ahead and bought an iPhone. I’ve been debating for quite a while about plunking down the change for one, but eh, there just really isn’t a better phone out there right now, and there isn’t going to be for a while. So, why not. I LOVED

Lots to Do This Week

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, art forms, flash, new technologies, project management, technology reviews, things to do, user experience, viral marketing

I just wanted to make sure you were invited to all the awesome web and design happenings this week in Phoenix! Tues, Dec 4th – Refresh Phoenix Refresh Phoenix meets every first Tuesday of the month to discuss current internet issues and trends. The topics range from becoming your own boss to css frameworks to

Quarterlife and Internet Television

By aprilholle | art forms, new idea!, user experience

So I got a recommendation from Erin Enriquez at Terralever to take up watching the new internet series Quarterlife. The premise is basically this intern writer decides to take up video blogging about her two roomates and the two guys that live across the courtyard whom are all friends. It’s a pretty decent concept, but