My Old Friend, Design
Today in FA3000, Design for the Web, we talked about general principles of design. It was nice to see references to research – know your audience, what they want, how they use computers and the web –...
View ArticlePhotoshop-Induced Cognitive Failure
[The above image, "Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" by Francis Bacon is illustrative of my current mental condition.] Well, my last post was all about how wonderful Photoshop is....
View ArticleFlash Is Slowly Dying?
Well, interesting news today via TechCrunch: Apparently Adobe has decided that Flash for mobile devices (i.e., phones and tablets) has been a colossal failure and is pulling the plug. As the article...
View ArticleMax & Me
I just made my very first patch in Max (v. 6), otherwise known as Max/MSP/Jitter, which is brought to us by the fine people at Cycling ’74. I feel like a proud papa! (If you click on the circles — in...
View ArticleFinally Launchpad Makes Sense
So when Steve Jobs gave a preview of Lion (AKA Mac OS X 10.7) he talked all about how they were bringing features from the iPhone “back to the Mac.” One of these was the icon screen, which on the Mac...
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