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
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
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
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…
Well, I’ve been working on this for a while, and I’ve finally gotten my first t-shirt design up. Granted, this is not a mass market t-shirt, but instead one that will have a very limited audience. But it’s the basest for a (slightly) broader line of t-shirt ideas directed at Information Architects and Designers, which have been given the short thrift in the Tech Geek t-shirt world. It started out about 6 months ago when my former/current boss was leaving GSI, and I thought it would be cool to get him a funny IA t-shirt. But in looking on Cafe Press, Threadless, Think Geek, Veer and others, I couldn’t find any. None. Lots of IT shirts, lots of programmer shirts and even a good number of design t-shirts, but nothing that was specifically for IA. So I set out to come up with one. Continue reading
Wow, Wal-Mart really screwed the pooch on this one. If you visit their new Video Download beta site, you get a somewhat nice experience – not great, but not too bad – provided you are using Internet Explorer:
If, however, you are using a modern browser such as say, Firefox, your experience is somewhat … shall we say, different?
Notice anything wrong? Obviously, no one mentioned that over 10% of the country uses Firefox, including what might be a disproportionate number of the users who might use a download service like this. Of course, we are talking about Wal-Mart customers…
I sure hope that someone loses their job over this – this is sloppy and a REALLY poor example of what happens when you don’t do proper QA (or use qualified designers). I could go to town on the code itself, but could I really do worse than what they already show here?
This is what happens when you combine a non-studio photographer with the urge to do something artistic – Gummi Art.
Merry Christmas to everyone!
For a while now, I’ve been trying to figure out how to copy text, etc. from one page to another page in Visio. I found the basics in one of the Boxes & Arrows tutorials, which squeezed down comes to the following:
The key is the SHAPETEXT command in Visio, which pulls the text from one shape and puts it into another. For example, if you wanted to keep your annotation and footnotes synced up, you would: Continue reading
Some of the best usability and accessibility articles I’ve found this month.
