Ma.gnolia: Alex Jones' Bookmarks

Telescopic Text

BaldTechnologist — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:15:55 PDT

An exploration of scale and levels of detail. How much or little is contained within the tiniest, most ordinary of moments.

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Tags: user experience, ui, content, text, interface

WP Developer Assistant

BaldTechnologist — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:08:11 PDT

WP Developer Assistant is the first WordPress plugin of its kind. It essentially is a toolkit that makes life as a WordPress developer easier.

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Tags: web development, wordpress, plugins, wordpress development

6 Metrics for Managing UI Design

BaldTechnologist — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:28:32 PDT

"As part of a recent management summit at my company, we were asked to fill out an RMPT matrix for our departments (I head up Product Design). An RMPT matrix consists of (R)esponsibilities, (M)etrics, (P)rocesses, and (T)ools. I have been intending to develop better metrics for both measuring and guiding our design efforts, and this exercise served as a catalyst to get me started. "

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Tags: web design, user experience, ux, ui, user experience management, ux management

The Micro-site Isn’t Dead. (It's Just Not Useful)

BaldTechnologist — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:21:20 PDT

If there’s one type of headline that gets attention—it’s about claiming the death of something. Well, I’d like to proclaim the “un-dead” nature of a format which I think has the potential to become something more powerful than we are currently seeing today. The Micro-site first became adopted by the marketing community as a tool of convenience. It simply became too unwieldy to continue adding sections to our large company/product Websites every time we wanted to promote a new product, feature or service. And specifically for advertisers—well, they needed an online extension for their campaigns to live in the digital space.

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Tags: ux, user experience, marketing, advertising, microsites, micro-sites

Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture

BaldTechnologist — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:56:57 PDT

Mat Wall and Nik Silver explain how their has been using Domain-Driven Design in an evolving and Agile environment, at high traffic news site guardian.co.uk.

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Tags: web design, user experience, ux, planning, ddd

The Front-Runner’s Fall

BaldTechnologist — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:40:59 PDT

Hillary Clinton’s campaign was undone by a clash of personalities more toxic than anyone imagined. E-mails and memos—published here for the first time—reveal the backstabbing and conflicting strategies that produced an epic meltdown.

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Tags: politics, presedential politics, elections, united states, u.s., hillary clinton, clintons

The Complainist

BaldTechnologist — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:15:59 PDT

The Complainist is dedicated to testing the limits of customer service departments. If there’s a possibility that an idiot might misunderstand a product’s intended use, we will be that idiot. We like to nitpick over details that most sensible people would just let go. The thought of a customer service representative actually believing that someone could be this stupid really gives us a thrill. This has all been done under the guise of Linda Wilson, so far, although we have plans to add more characters in the future.

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Tags: consumers, customer service, marketing

More Photoshop brushes than you’ll ever need

BaldTechnologist — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:19:22 PDT

I've been looking around the web for some Photoshop brushes for some upcoming job, so I thought you'd appreciate if I share what I find.

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Tags: web design, design, photoshop, illustrator, brushes, stock, show sarah

Aurora

BaldTechnologist — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:03:27 PDT

Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. Aurora explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios.

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Tags: web design, user experience, ux, mozilla, concepts, interactions

The National Championship Barbecue Cookoff

BaldTechnologist — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:04:03 PDT

The 20th Annual National Championship Barbecue Cookoff. Invitation only with winning cookers from preceeding year's cookoffs eligible. Over $16,000 in prize money. Benefitting national and local charities.

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Tags: barbecue, bbq, food, food and drinks, meat, beef, pork, chicken, texas, tx

NuevaSync - Over the Air Synchronization

BaldTechnologist — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:34:04 PDT

NuevaSync allows direct, over-the-air, native synchronization of certain smart phones and PDA devices with public PIM, and calendaring services including Google Calendar. NuevaSync does not need any software installed on your device because it uses synchronization protocols that are already built in.

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Tags: iphone, calendars, google calendar, iphone sync, synchronization

The invisible city: Design in the age of intelligent maps

BaldTechnologist — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:21:38 PDT

Today's intelligent maps don't just represent spatial relationships, they reveal conditions in the city that were previously hidden in spreadsheets and databases. And it's not just a new representation of the city that emerges out of this data; its a new hybrid city, part physical texture and part data-driven map. As maps have become more complex, they have become our native medium for analyzing environments and societies, essential parts of the decision-making process in policy making.

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Tags: design, data visualization, information visualization, visualization, mapping, maps, cartography, gps

Creating an interactive PDF file from a multipage document in Fireworks CS4 beta

BaldTechnologist — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:21:26 PDT

In this article we'll take a look at how effortless it is to export a PDF from Fireworks, with a focus on creating interactive PDF files.

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Tags: web design, prototypes, wireframes, fireworks, pdf

300+ Free Hi-Res grunge textures you’ve never seen before! | Design Shard | Web Design Blog

BaldTechnologist — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:19:19 PDT

Here is a free Hi-Res texture pack that i have made over the weeks for you all to download, the pack contains over 300 grunge, worn, torn and weathered textures that i have taken in and around my house.

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Tags: design, web design, textures, backgrounds, show sarah

Orwell Diaries

BaldTechnologist — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:25:10 PDT

"From 9th August 2008, you will be able to gather your own impression of Orwell’s face from reading his most strongly individual piece of writing: his diaries. The Orwell Prize is delighted to announce that, to mark the 70th anniversary of the diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written, allowing you to follow Orwell’s recuperation in Morocco, his return to the UK, and his opinions on the descent of Europe into war in real time. The diaries end in 1942, three years into the conflict."

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Tags: orwell, authors, diaries, literature, culture

The Bureau Loves You » Home

BaldTechnologist — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:24:26 PDT

A collection of Photoshop brushes, color swatches, fonts and desktops.

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Tags: web design, design, photoshop, fonts, brushes, color, color swatches, swatches

Google Calendar CalDAV support

BaldTechnologist — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:36:47 PDT

The steps required to set up CalDAV support for Google Calendar in iCal, which allows syncing between the two calendars.

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Tags: ical, google calendar, caldav, os x

MouritsaDA-Stock's deviantART Gallery

BaldTechnologist — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:18:32 PDT

Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints.

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Tags: web design, design, photoshop, illustrator, brushes, ornaments, stock

Design Resources Pack #1: The Grunge Pack, Brushes, Fonts, Textures etc…

BaldTechnologist — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:14:23 PDT

Welcome to the very first edition of our Design Resources Pack, the basic idea behind this is; we collect a load of resources around a certain theme or style and put them together in one place. Grunge is a style which is often misunderstood. Grunge doesn’t always have to mean really over the top dirty and dark. Today grunge comes in many forms, subtle grunge effects seem to be more common than just completely “grunging” something up. Whether you choose to be subtle, or over-the-top with your Grunge style here are some amazing resources to help you out.

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Tags: web design, design, photoshop, illustrator, brushes textures, fonts, stock

Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days

BaldTechnologist — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:05:52 PDT

This FREE 30 days Illustrator crash course is created for beginners interested in learning Illustrator. Each lesson will take around 20 mins to complete and you will be able to learn the basic fundamental techniques before the 30 days trial ends.

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Tags: design, illustrator, tutorials