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
Tags: Abstract Photographer, Adobe, Adobe Labs, Adobe Thermo, Adobe Thermo screenshots, Apple iPhone 3G, billboard leasing, BrainFuel.tv, car door handles, Chris Tingom, entrepreneurs, Facebook, Facebook Gangsta, Firefox mobile browsing, Flixwagon, funny-videos, GangPlank, HLF Industries, Howtoons, Ignite Phoenix, Integrum-Technologies, iPhone live video streaming, live video stream, Modzilla Labs, O'Reilly Ignite, Onsite Insite, Phoenix 20, product design, Santan Freeway, team-management, Tyson Crosbie, user experience, user interface, user interface design, user-interaction, Vibram Five Fingers, wireframes
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By aprilholle | design, flash, links of the week, new technologies, technology reviews
A collection of user interface design patterns and trends that are becoming “standard”. A standard design gallery featuring your not so standard oriental designs. The perfect carrying case for your new Mac Air. Great article on selling customers on emotion rather than technology and process. Scientists create robots that lie to save themselves. Stickk, a
Tags: Apple Air, applications-created-in-flash, design process, designing-websites, flash, graphic-design, interactive-flash, macintosh, meeting goals, motovation, Stickk, unique design, user experience, user interface, user-friendly
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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!
Tags: design, eric_meyer, Happy-Webbies, happy_bunny, new idea!, user experience, webbies, web_geeks, web_gurus, XHTML/CSS
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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
Tags: Apple, AT&T, cell-phone, cell-phone-coverage, Cingular, iPhone, iPhone-review, life news, More-bars-in-more-places, new technologies, technology reviews, user experience
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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
Tags: AIGA, AIGA-Arizona, aiga-art-auction, art forms, art-auction, artistic-expression, artistic-work, backend-technology, barcamp, barcamp-Phoenix, broad-technical-understanding, browser-type, business, client-relations, code-camp, compliant-web-design, content-management-systems, creative-teams, creatives, cross-browser, cross-browser-compliance, css, css-stylesheets, design, design-trends, dynamic-content, dynamic-website, flash, front-end-development, good-website-design, Inza-Coffee, Inza-Coffee-House, monorchid, new technologies, phoenix, phoenix-lifestyle, phoenix-web, Phoenix-web-events, print-and-web, project management, Refresh-Phoenix, Search-Engine-Optimization, standards-compliance, technology, technology reviews, technology-conference, things to do, uat, university_of_advancing_technology, usability, usable-design, user experience, video-blogging, viral marketing, web-community, web-design-communities, web-design-community, web-design-groups, web-event, web-events, web-groups, web-site-design, web-standard-groups, web-workshops, XHTML, XHTML/CSS
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By aprilholle | things to do
Celebrate web standards by donning a blue beanie Monday, November 25 and while you’re at it, take a picture and post it to the flickr group. This event was brainstormed by Facebook group formed around Designing With Web Standards. The book was written by Jeffrey Zeldman who is well known for his and talks around
Tags: Blue-Beanie-Day, compliant-web-design, cross-browser, cross-browser-compliance, designing-websites, Designing-with-Web-Standards, experience-design, Facebook, Facebook-groups, Flickr, Flickr-group, good-website-design, great-websites, IE-6-compliance, Jeffrey-Zeldman, quality-assurance, safari-compliance, Social-Networking, social-networks, South-by-Southwest, standards-compliance, standards-compliant, things to do, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, user-interaction, ux, ux-design, web-community, Web-Design, web-design-communities, web-design-community, web-design-groups, web-event, web-events, web-groups, web-site-design, web-standard-groups, web-standards
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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
Tags: @media, art forms, artistic-expression, artistic-work, blogging, creative-links, creatives, internet-series, internet-stars, media-types, new idea!, print-and-web, print-media, Quarterlife, sitcom, television, television-media, television-programs, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, user-interaction, ux, ux-design, video-blogging, video-mashing, video-series, viral marketing, viral-activity, viral-video, viral-videos, web-broadcast, web-community, web-media, web-tv, web-video
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By aprilholle | flash, general observation, new technologies, user experience
Call me a girl who loves money, but I think the security features in all the new American currency are fascinating. The different levels of complexity of design, the material the dollars are made out of, the metallic inks, the list goes on. Anyhow, I was reading The New Old Five Dollar Bill article over
Tags: A-Brief-Message, American-currency, currency-security, financial-security, five-dollar-bill, flash, flash-application, general observation, graphic-design, interactive-flash, money, money-design, new technologies, new-dollar-bills, security-features, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, ux, ux-design
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, user experience
I came across a great article this morning that discusses how to make your links stand out while not making them a pain in the ass to use. Links are great assets that can increase the value of your content by providing supporting material for your discussion and satelliting your topic to similar sites throughout
Tags: assets, external-links, how-to-link-to-sites, hyperlinks, internal-links, links, quality-assurance, similar-sites, supporting-material, usability, usable-design, user experience, user-friendly, ux, ux-design, w3c, web-site-design, XHTML, XHTML/CSS
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, new technologies, things to do, user experience, viral marketing
This is just a happy little reminder about the Phoenix Facebook Developers Garage event! What is a Facebook Developers Garage? It’s an opportunity for developers, marketers and any one else to learn more about Facebook, Facebook applications, marketing through Facebook applications, building applications and everything in between. Highlights of the event include a presentation by
Tags: advertising & marketing, Dave-Morin, Facebook, Facebook-Applications, Facebook-Developers-Garage, new technologies, Phoenix-web-events, Red-Bull, Social-Networking, things to do, user experience, viral marketing, web-event, XHTML/CSS
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