Posted: April 15th, 2009 | Author: msh | Filed under: Client Side, Strategy, The Craft | Tags: design, informationarchitecture, phases, uxd | No Comments »
It’s easy to think of a web site in terms of the teams who participate in the project: content, design, information architecture, hardware, platform, application development. But it’s the user who ties all the parts together: the user experience is the end-product of a web application.
This is why people freak out about user experience design, or UxD, these days. We can define and justify and normalize everything we do during the course of a web project by referring to the user experience, and we can keep this experience in mind as a theoretical model to help us make decisions along the way. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 14th, 2009 | Author: msh | Filed under: HM A-List | Tags: design, video | 4 Comments »
The Helen Marie A-List is a video interview series, featuring creative thinkers who are using design and code to produce engaging experiences. We’ll shine the spotlight on artists and developers and everyone in between. The “A” in HMA-List does not stand for alpha or first but authentic.
Check back next month for a new installment.
Tucker Viemeister is Lab Chief, heading research and development at Rockwell Group. The Lab recently made an interactive introduction installation for the Venice Architecture Biennale. He was a founder of Smart Design where he helped design the widely acclaimed OXO “GoodGrips” kitchen tools. He also was president of Springtime-USA, a partnership with the Dutch industrial design company, he helped to found Razorfish’s physical design capability and frogdesign’s New York office.
A graduate from Pratt Institute, Viemeister has worked for clients like Apple, Corning, Gap, J&J, Jet Blue, P&G, McDonald’s, Timex, Levi’s, Motorola, Vodaphone, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Nike, Toyota, Viking, and Kate Spade. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Architectural League of New York, chair of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund, president of the International Design Network Foundation He was called “scruffy brand-meister” by the Architect’s Newspaper (2/06) and New York Magazine selected him as a “Living Design Innovator” (10/29/07). He teaches at NYU’s ITP, holds 32 US Utility Patents and was named after a car.
Posted: January 7th, 2009 | Author: msh | Filed under: The Craft | Tags: bugs, design, flash, informationarchitecture, jquery | 2 Comments »
Update, April 2009: Change.gov seems to have changed their video player size, so the working example in this entry no longer has a strict correlation between the video player and the image replacement. The principle still holds, though, and it would be an easy fix to create a new replacement image using the naming conventions below. — msh
Happy 2009! OK, back to work.
Note to developers and designers: you still can’t layer HTML over Flash, and you still need to design around it. Sad, but true. For instance, this page on change.gov has the classic problem: a Flash video player at the top of the page, and a menu that draws a layer on rollover. The two are not friends.
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