Aug 13th 09
25+ Astonishing Examples of Creative Photoshopped Ads
When designing an advert, it all comes down to the inspiration utilized and the ideas that gave way to the conception of your ad as it becomes a “work of art”. Horrible ads are circulated throughout the web, print, and media on a regular basis. The very difference between effective and ineffective ads is the straightforward ability that a designer may possess to capture a viewer’s undeniable...
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Aug 13th 09
The Rise of Conversation Media
Content will only take you so far if you don’t listen to what your users are trying to say.
While you’ve probably heard the saying, “Content is King,” the sites that reign supreme in today’s Web world don’t just produce great content, they create a culture of passionate participants and a community of conversation. It’s like BoingBoing author and editor Cory...
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Aug 9th 09
An online directory of tools for user interface design
Someone recently notified me of a new site, IAApps.com, dedicated exclusively to software applications for User Experience professionals.
IAApps organizes all the different tools into 4 categories:
Interface Modeling
Prototyping
Screen Capture
Usability Testing
Each category is then further organized by OS platform:
Mac OSX flavors
Windows flavors
Web
I found the navigation somewhat clumsy. Rather...
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Aug 9th 09
Networked Consumer Device Platforms
In Digital Product Platforms, I outlined some of the technological capabilities seeing more common use through popular networked consumer device platforms. But what is a networked consumer device platform? Let’s break it down:
Networked: able to get itself online and thereby read and write Internet content or run services from “the cloud”
Consumer: designed and intended for everyday...
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Aug 9th 09
Mobile Apps vs. Web Apps
Today news sources (like the BBC) are trumpeting the market for mobile applications will become “as big as the Internet.” Clearly, we’re not going to have as many applications on any specific mobile platform as on the Internet at large. So what’s the story here?
Mobile app stores can provide access to the few services that matter online. Therefore they can deliver the top sites...
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Patrick is an accomplished Sr. User Interface Developer and Architect specializing in Web Applications, Web 2.0 and eLearning with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including project planning, design, testing, client communications, training, de-bugging, implementation and maintenance. His book, Modern Ui, Social Usability for Web 2.0 and Beyond is in production and will be available at Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon as well as many other fine retailers in Winter 2009-2010.
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