Saturday, March 10 5:00PM – 6:00PMSean McBride Web Dev Adobe Typekit Taking iconic sign styles and transforming them into the web using web technologies. Ideas vs. FormsIdea -> Design System -> Form Many times we try to go from an original form to a new form without any sort of consideration of where it came… Read more »
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Designing for Content Management Systems
Saturday, March 10 12:30PM – 1:30PMJared Ponchot Creative Dir Lullabot Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order. (Victor Papanek) CMS create ways to impose a meaningful order. How a CMS Thinks Contexts A context provides conditions and reactions based upon a defined criteria. Conditions might be things like sections, content types or… Read more »
Best Practices: Native + Web Hybrid Mobile Apps
Saturday, March 10 – 11:00AM -12:00PMCharles Ying Developer Flipboard Flipboard takes feeds and streams from all over the web and turns it into a beautiful magazine layout (for iphone and ipad). Flipboard is a hybrid application – it is a mix between a web app and a native app. Web AppPut a simple "app" wrapper… Read more »
The State of Browser Developer Tools
Saturday, March 10 – 9:30AM -10:30AMBrandon Satrom Developer Evangelist TelerikGarann Means JavaScript EngineerJoe Stagner Sr Program Manager Developer Technologies Mozilla CorporationMike Taylor Web Opener Opera Software Paul Irish Chrome Developer Advocate Google Inc Firebug was released in 2006 just viewing the DOM was a big thing at that time. The Last Year of Developer Tools… Read more »
Effective Social Media Presence in Higher Ed
Friday, March 9 – 3:30PM – 4:30PMDeborah Maue Asst VP DePaul UniversityLiz Gross Dir of University Mktg & Comm University of Wisconsin-Waukesha This session was a core conversation – a room full of peole in higher education talking about topics related to social media. These are a few of the take-away notes. The tendency in… Read more »
Designing for Context
Friday, March 9 – 2:00PM – 3:00PMAndrew Crow VP, Experience Design GEBen Fullerton Director, User Experience Method Leah Buley Design Strategist IntuitNate Bolt Pres Bolt|PetersRyan Freitas Co-founder AOL/About.me Slides: http://dforc.org/ Design for different locations, environments and relationships and product ecosystems. What problems exist in all of these areas, and design for those problems. Examples of… Read more »
South by Southwest Interactive 2012
It is once again that time of year for my to Austin, TX to attend the South by Southwest Interactive conference. I’ll be collecting notes from the various sessions I attend right here on this blog (category sxsw) as well as on my SXSW sub-blog (http://sxsw.techory.com). The 19th annual SXSW Interactive festival will take place… Read more »
A CableCARD Update for the HTPC
A few months back I acquired an update for our HTPC. In order to watch digital channels (anything that isn’t available as an over-the-air network), I needed either a cable box, which I didn’t want to rent, or a device capable of taking a CableCARD. When I first started looking, there were two on the… Read more »
Homemade Snowmaker
So as of right now, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be a white Christmas. If you really had your heart set on some snow, fear not. You can now make a run to the hardware store for some parts to build your very own snowmaker. Appropriately named Instructables member, MakeSnow has a very… Read more »
2011 Holiday Gift Guides
Well folks, it’s Cyber Monday again. You know what that means… it’s time for another iteration of my holiday geek gift guides. I started this quite a few years ago as a list of gift guides to help me find gifts for the people I shop for. Most of these are geared more towards geeks… Read more »
Mentos Soda Geiser Car
Want.
Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera
This is a slick little gadget. It’s a little green ball with cameras mounted all over it. You toss it into the air, and it created a spherical panorama at the apex of your toss. I wonder how careful you have to be when throwing this. I bet a little bit of spin would mess… Read more »
Stateris
Are you tired of plain-old Tetris? Do simple square shapes bore you? Give Stateris a try.
Super Mario Brothers + Portal = Awesome
Take a the timeless classic video game of Mario Brothers, then add the innovative modern game Portal, and you get a great game that I’d love to play MariO. I hope they follow through with this mashup!
What Are Your Favorite Podcasts?
I’ve always got a good collection of podcasts on my iPod. In fact, I probably listen to podcasts more than I listen to music. I usually download a new batch of podcasts every couple weeks. I’ll fill up my iPod and listen until I run out, and then pull down the newest batch. I have… Read more »
