Design


SXSW InteractiveI’m please to announce the voting of next years SXSW (South by Southwest) panel discussions. Its a music, film, and interactive conference based in Austin, Texas and I have the honor of being in the running for speaking there. You can help make sure I go by signing up and voting for me here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3479/.

Marc Dole has organized a team for entry into the 48 File Project and I am excited to be a part of it. I will be doing some art direction and post graphics. We will be working next weekend on the a film that we don’t know anything about. I love that! Take a look at the rules of the challenge here: http://www.48hourfilm.com/.

Art Snob Solutions

Art Snob Solutions build its own version of Photoshop. So clever. See images here: http://www.flickr.com/

User Experience Treasure Map. I love this visual. Most companies don’t want to follow a plan like this, but its so good to show what a development process takes with the user in mind. www.findability.org

Being a complete dork and one that enjoys shooting people in the office as well I decided to fabricate a Steampunk inspired Nerf gun to make it even more fun for me. I know I am not the first to do this and I was definitely inspired by the many submissions online. Using old parts from my kids toys I was able to create some slight modifications to the already cool design of the Maverick Nerf gun. I did have some help from my son as well. This will be a fun modification to my hyjinks at work and hopefully this will inspire the creative geek in you as well to join the many who have tired.

Steampunk Nerf Maverick Shot 1 Steampunk Nerf Maverick Shot 2

If you dont know Lee Brimelow you probably dont know Flash :) Lee brings it all together simply with his amazing Flash tutorials on gotoAndLearn. See here: http://www.gotoandlearn.com/

This is a great blog for css goodness: http://urbanoalvarez.es/blog/2008/03/17/most-used-css-tricks/.

Here are the new standards for adding Flash to your web site. Be sure to do the right thing and use this code set! Learn about it here: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/SWFObject_2_0_documentation

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