Sep 12th 09
12 Fresh, Original and Unique Photoshop Tutorials
Everyday the Photoshop community offers several new tutorials and free resources. Any and all tutorials are appreciated, sometimes though, you yearn for a tutorial that is fresh, original and unique. Something out with the norm. A chance to learn a new skill or technique and stretch your graphic design skills to the limit. In this post we have collected 12 recent Photoshop tutorials that meet that...
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Sep 8th 09
User Experience Designer vs. Creative Director
Professionals within our industry are completely awash with opportunities by which they can tweak and cajole better User Experiences from their projects. The difficult part is maintaining quality across all of these channels. Because of how multifaceted User Experience is, a User Experience designer begins to take on a more directorial position within a project/company, which I see as analogous...
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Sep 7th 09
HCI 09: Technology in da House
A key feature of this year’s HCI conference was the Open House Festival of Technology, an evening event hosted jointly by Microsoft Research Cambridge and Cambridge University. The community of Cambridge laboratories and startup companies demonstrated nearly eighty new displays, devices, games, communications and ubiquitous computing technologies, covering the full range of human experience. There...
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Sep 7th 09
On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Darwin’s Favored Traces
Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” can be called one of the most important works in the history of science. It evolved over 13 years, published in 6 editions; for instance, the famous notion of “survival of the fittest” did not appear until the 5th edition of the text.
Ben Fry visualizes all the edits and additions introduced in each edition of the work in his...
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Sep 3rd 09
About New South Wales: Putting Open Data Online, the Australian Way
About New South Wales [nsw.gov.au] is an online data repository portal, focusing on the Australian state New South Wales (which, among many other things, is also home to the city of Sydney). The website is unique in its apparent focus on innovation and visual sophistication, forward-looking aspects that seem currently absent in all things that have some perceived relationship to the NSW government.
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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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