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Mobile Web Resources
Every once in a while, some generous web maestro releases something that makes you say, “Thank you, my new best friend! I owe you at least a box of shortbread!” This is one of those things: a comprehensive list of incredible resources for those who design and develop for the mobile web.
Loading ...Space Buggy Mobile Game – Gameplay Video
This game is for a part of the Emerging Technologies class assignment.
Given time for the assignment was 1 week and the purpose was to get familiar with the Lua framework Corona SDK mobile development environment and mobile game basics.
Game graphics and the code base of the game are designed and tweaked by Jesse Chan, Llorin Keashly and Jon Tastemel.
A Dinosaur Family Explains IA
This doesn’t deliver the whole story of course, but it’s a fun start:
Great Minds
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been spending some hours with my good friend illustrator:
This is a self directed project for one of my classes. Basically: portraits of people I find interesting and/or inspiring. They’ll be comin’ with quotes, too. The learning goals here are pretty straightforward:
- Learn how to use illustrator to describe complex forms using fairly simple lines and values
- Increase the speed at which I can output more complex vector works
- And of course, I’m trying to make them look like their real life counterparts
Video Project
I filmed an edited a series of videos, 30 seconds each, meant to be shown as promotional ads for a cellphone recycling website.
Here are all five videos.
The Browsers You’ll Support in a Few Years
Paul Irish introduces a tragic new element to the IE saga: Microsoft has a “lifecycle policy” of ten+ years for each version of its browser, meaning IE8′s death date is nine years from now. Meanwhile, you won’t have to worry about supporting Firefox 6 now.
Read the full post here
Directed Study – CSU Usability Testing
For my directed study project this year, I’m conducting online usability testing and surveying to get feedback on the Capilano Students’ Union website, and using the results to generate a revised information architecture and visual design strategy for the organization. I have had the pleasure of working with the CSU over the past several months as a student representative to Senate and as a member of their Board of Directors, and I’m looking forward to giving back by leading a branding and website redevelopment project with them over the next several months.
Research firm, Gartner, reveals its list of Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012
Most are things that you’ve heard about before, but I had not yet heard of “In-Memory Computing”. This stuff is the future. The future is now.
16 Pixels for Body Copy – Anything Less Is a Costly Mistake
Here in the Interactive Design program, we’re always struggling to achieve two goals: design aesthetics and usability. Designers like small type, and usability gurus like readability. Here’s an article that brings down a powerful argument on the usability side, and illustrates why modern web design is leaning toward bigger and bigger type:
A Guide To UX Careers
Here’s a very cool infographic about the basic ins and outs of a career in user experience – a little US-centric, but still useful.
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