Marty November 7th, 2007
Well, I finally feel like I’ve gotten somewhere with the projects that I have been working on, both at my ‘real’ job and the side projects. A big shout out to VanK, Man of JavaScript Mystery for his work on my UPenn project, aka the Polls from the 7th Level of Hell. Now, I just have to put to bed the Project That Shall Not Be Named, Continue Reading »
Marty October 17th, 2007
I was doing some research for a Usability/Accessibility Guidelines document I’m developing at work, when I stumbled across a peculiar piece of information while searching for reference sources. In general, the body of work that is presented on the Usability.gov website is pretty good; getting a little dated in spots, but overall very good. Continue Reading »
Marty August 31st, 2007
It’s been another crazy week at work - both the day job and the side job I’m working on with Van. I can’t seem to get caught up, and I’m exhausted. But there’s a lot more to do - I’ll be working on the UPenn stuff all weekend. It’s a bit depressing how much I’ve forgotten code- and CSS-wise since I have been doing so little of it. I feel like a rank amateur trying to code these pages to make them look nice… *sigh*. Hopefully I’ll have something worthwhile to show on Monday Tuesday.
Marty August 10th, 2007
Back just before I left GSI Commerce, I was working on a project that I put a lot of time and effort into making into the best design I could - PBS Shop. I created the design, debated the methods, worked with developers to come up with some tricks to make it work, worked with business people to push certain ideas when the client had other ideas. After a long struggle, I finally got it the way that I wanted it to be … and then I left for my current job. Continue Reading »
Marty May 4th, 2007
Recently, a project came up which had a particularly difficult requirement included. Pharma industry sites have a pretty tight set of restrictions to start with but some things take it to a new level. One of these is the so-called “Black Box Warning†that some drugs must display. Continue Reading »
Marty March 9th, 2007
Well, it’s up - my Jersey Birder sub-site is up on CafePress, or at least the first part of it is. After many delays, I just needed to take an hour and get this thing up and running so that it was at least out there - and so that I could have one of the shirts to wear for my trip to Texas in 11 days. So far, it’s only the white silhouettes up on darker t-shirts, but I’m going to be putting the colored ones, and false-positive backgrounds up so I can do lighter t-shirts, mugs, pens, mufflers, crock pots and 30’s style cigarette filters. Feel free to take a look…
Marty March 5th, 2007
This has been one of my projects lately - a series of t-shirt designs for Jersey birders. This started out as a small idea I had when I was fooling around with some silhouettes and type, and gathered some steam as I did the doodles. Continue Reading »
Marty March 2nd, 2007
I don’t know about you, but sometimes there is a certain tediousness to my job. Not in the designs, per se, but in the fact that I use the “Lorem Ipsum” text a LOT. If you’re not familiar, Lorem ipsum is a Latin ‘filler’ used to simulate text on designs but keep the reader from focusing on the content instead of the overall design. There are variations, but most start with something like this: Continue Reading »
Marty February 28th, 2007
Last night I had some ‘me’ time after a long day with a big headache - which meant a stimulating game of Civilization IV. I know, I know - you’re probably jealous, but please try to contain it.
Actually, I think it was 50% needing to get away from a concept I’ve been working on (the usability of ‘tabs’ and how we can design in a tab-centric world), to help things get a little clearer. Other projects I have on my “To Do” list: Continue Reading »
Marty February 14th, 2007
I’m currently working on a project for a hemophilia product from a major pharmaceutical company. In the midst of working on it, there is a reference to another product that triggered a memory of a past project - one that I did when I was working for Waresoft. Back then, it was a project coming up with a combination of Flash, HTML and JavaScript tools for Humate-P, made by ZLB Behring.
In this project, I was tasked to do three things:
Well, since I was thinking about the old project, I went to see how it was looking - and it’s up and running on their site. It works pretty well, too. You can see the different aspects of it here:
Humate-P Densitometric Analysis - click on the “Click here” link at the top of the page to launch Flash.
Granted, I only adapted and improved the first, and got a TON of help from Van in creating the JavaScript for the Dosage Calculator, but I think it turned out pretty well. I remember that trying to sync up the voice and animation in Flash was a major nightmare; ironically, knowing Flash 8 a little better now, I realize that there was a much easier way to do it than I did. Oh well, stuff happens.
Aahhh, the salad days…
