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Design anywhere digital culture NEWS // August 2002
The
quality and originality of Charles Wilkin's design is an automatic success.
Another
Platinum redesign! This is an impressive reworking of their interface
and rebranding of their logo.
Need
a crash introduction to XML? Here's two suggested resources:
A List Apart XML articles
Simon St.Laurent writings
The
Age of Information Architecture by Jeff Lash
“This is not to say that information architects are the leftovers,
the bottom of the barrel, or the lost souls who could find no other home.
This path actually makes a lot of sense.
For the most part, information architects are communicators
and strategists.”
Knoll
built an outstanding Office
system - industrial design at its best. Check the workstations area.
The
media titans still don't get it by Scott Rosenberg
“As a generator of instant wealth, Net may now be
a big bust; as a generator of instant ideas, it keeps thrumming along...
But the same people who got the Internet business so wrong got the Internet
story wrong, too”.
An
interesting essay on Freeing
of the Press by Daniel Scuka, Chiaki Kitada, and Kyoko Fujimoto.
“If you want to really change this society, think about what kind
of business you can do in the post-Internet era of unlimited communications.
Competition is happening at the content level. Nobody will pay attention
to boring information -- only media with quality will be able to survive.
Now that the boundaries have started to disappear, the reputation of
the author will become key.”
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ndle1: Although
written in 2001, the content is still relevent today.
A
newly discovered experimental foundry: ::prototype:: which
has other goodies (posters and books) as well. Check it out.
Another
step forward for open standards: Verizon
switches programmers to Linux (and saves 6M$) by Stephen Shankland.
Michael
Fiala is a top photographer. Check his studio.
Another
industrial design hot shop f r o
g d e s i g n has got a brand new site.
An
interesting bit on branding.
“Brand Matters: Laying the foundation for online
success. A company's brand can and must be incorporated into every facet
of the interactive digital experience, from site navigation to features
to mobile applications.”
A
good overall look at IA
through an interview by Meryl K. Evans.
Russell
Brown's photoshop
tips & techniques are excellent and often available either in
a .pdf file and/or a quicktime movie, with a step by step commands examples.
These
illustrations have both an humorous edge and a candid treatment. Fabulous
drawing control, perspective and composition from Berit
Sømme.
A
developer's resource dreamland DevGuru ,
from ADO to XSLT.
Learn
more by looking at a master
photographers archive.
Looking
for world stats from surveys on
the present state of the web?
From
the makers of Moccu a design
forte comes cyco. A flash
training demo with exquisite details that invites exploration.
What
is the
Semantic Web? by Eric Miller.
What
an IA should know about prototypes for user testing by Chris Farnum
Interesting prototyping levels and hands-on suggestions.
Herding
cats versus HVCT by Parker Torrence
Radio
jingles from the Reelworld.
For
people who make websites:
Manage Your Content
With PHP by Christopher Robbins
Read his *close-ups interview.
Recently
discovered that nasty spyware (paid for the software with no freeware
on my workstation - if you use freeware you are at a higher risk) has
updated the registry with some fancy back-web code.
These can send info from your machine back to their own
db, push crazy ads and other undesirable actions.
A.Word.A.Day a
huge archive of daily words with examples of useage. I love words. A
dictionary would make a favorite read anytime... had I the time.
Boys,
boys, boys. New
media, new attitudes? Think again.
Kate Watson-Smyth find out why in the dotcom industry
www stands for world without women.
A
discussion about the merits of using Tables or Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) for page layout. Techniques for making layout tables accessible.
Techniques for making data tables accessible.
Creating
accessible Tables for both layout and data by Jim Byrne
Another
cool pixel base site || pixelhugger
||.
Binary
FX - Photoshop Tech Vault 2.0 by Stephen Marsh
Now
you gotta watch the flash intro to Phil
Brown DIRECTOR - a supra efficient communication design + storyboard.
Don't forget to turn on the speakers.
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ndle: Best
of the year 2002
monofolio
v3.0 
evolving
site and design skills. She uses a good color palette to produce a crisp
statement.
Mac:
Intel inside? You bet! Here's how by David Coursey.
“Unfixable”
flaw breaks Microsoft's Windows by David Cohen
Duh! An unfixable flaw that leaves your desktop PC open
to serious abuse has been exploited in Microsoft's Windows operating
system.
Growing
and growing Tree-Axis new pixel site.
OpenOffice
Gets Its OS X Story Straight by Masha Zager
“The community moves at an incredible pace when
it wants to accomplish something," Bhorat told NewsFactor. "There
is no slacking. This group certainly keeps you on your toes. Large corporations
have processes and procedures that are not able to respond with such
a fast turnaround.”
Are
you ready to manage the worker of the future? A new class of virtual
pet: the Metapet.net game.
Font
time! Typographica a phenomenal
resource on the art of typography + a professional community blog.
Concerning
the new EULA license for M$ Windows updates here is
the list of info retrieved from your workstation:
Operating-system version number and Product Identification
number
Internet Explorer version number
Version numbers of other software (???)
Plug and Play ID numbers of hardware devices
...
artistforhire ... a prolific artist. Her fabulous commercial and personal
work is worth exploring all around.
The
smallest website? .: dot16 :.
Reservocation -
issue #12!
Don't miss Ryan Shelton BD4D cofounder interview where he explains what
passion and efforts goes into these global events! Wow!
How about Montreal next?
Computer & Internet
Security, Privacy, Anonymity and more...
While
doing some cleaning up ::Kobalto:: Javier Revillo's site was displayed
in the wrong directory.
Food for the imagination guaranteed.
Need
some emotional entertainment? Check derBauer
- webDesign.
Screen
savers soft based on using Flash?
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ndle1: I
search the database to no avail, this Macromedia tutorial is gone to
the ether.
Discover Milla & Partner original
flash design and navigation.
A
cute pixel site with cool characters design and illustrations: Meomi
We
will never forget, visit Geoffrey Hiller's NY
after the fall project.
Excellent
product review of Adobe
Photoshop 7 and Photoshop
Plugin Roundup by Jesse Nieminen
For
people who make websites:
Using XML by
J. David Eisenberg.
Read
the 10
guidelines for building the credibility of a web site. These guidelines
are based on three years of research that included over 4,500 people.
Stanford's Pursuasive Technology department does all kinds of academic
research into the interactions between people and machines (and people
with people, by way of machines). They've launched a project to determine
factors that lead people to believe what they see on the web.
Recommended white papers in pdf from the Stanford
Web Credibility research team:
The elements
of computer credibility
What
makes web sites credible?
Plankdesign
has a project in-becoming: Montreal-Tales. They are seeking feedback
on their demo. If you live or have lived in Montreal you can take part
by completing the survey : user name + pw: mtl-tales.
Use
DED(tm). Enjoy Life. Renewed as always with cutting edge design.
Looking
for Photoshop tutorials? Binary
FX - Photoshop Tech Vault 2.0
The
basics of the Annual Report -> a tutorial.
Everything about presenting is moving forward. You want to be moving
forward because moving forward is being more connected.
Learn how to give a good
presentation.
Copyleft
and the independent content producer by Sabin Densmore
“The independent content producer faced with not
making a profit and potential rip-off of his/her work via the internet
has potential in the GNU public-license arena.”
Introducing Inertia
STOCK.XCHNG, the definitive place for 100% FREE stock photography.
Cool site, concept and pictures! Good work Peter! Perhaps you have
some to share too?
Macromedia,
Adobe settle patent squabble by ComputerWire.
Did
my first e_loop (with the help of hubby who's a musician) - now if you
don't think that's a smart flash concept - what gives? Looplabs everybody!
Hats up - tons of work behind this.
Some
girls design -> and some discuss and interact too.
“Injustice
anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
This picture of Carlos
Giuliani shot at arms length during protests against G4 globalization
summit brought tears to my eyes. He was shot twice and a police car
drove backwards over him after...
This renews my determination to advocate world peace,
do the same.
I
really like the chromatic palette and layout of |
Tabas | now with a new navigation.
Spam
new scheme: registrars companies sent me multiple invoices by snail mail
telling me to renew my domain names before they expired. Another company
- sent me what looked at first glance, like an invoice for search engines
positioning. Quite unnerving.
John Federico posted this link - that shows amongst other
things how search engines help selling spam software and lists - check Spambattle.com.
Concerning
recent patent claims (in ref with Forgent patent claim on JPEG)
by Richard Clark, JPEG.org Webmaster and editor + Committee member
since JPEG's formation (and before…)
If
you have a chance read the design *principles* of Overdrive
Design - their new site shows that they walk the talk.
AIGA
Experience Design Summit #5 by Erin Malone.
Improving
Usability with a Website Index by Fred Leise
New
Division a compendium of trendy and outstanding illustrators.
No
more JPEGs - ISO to withdraw image standard by Andrew Orlowski
It seems that Forgent's patent will become invalid in
2004.
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