Design Systems have been a pretty hot topic in recent years and they are still gaining traction in the industry and throughout organizations. That’s awesome, because when done well and utilized properly, … Read more “Simple Explanation of a Design System”
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I’m happy to announce that I will be participating on a panel alongside some very talented designers from some of the top tech companies in the Colorado front-range area.
If you are … Read more “The Creation of Design Systems – Panel Discussion”
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It’s common for designers to create prototypes to put their designs in front of other team members, stakeholders, and hopefully their users as well. Those purposes are excellent uses of prototypes in … Read more “Prototype for yourself – context is everything”
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A friend of mine recently asked for some UX design resources from myself and a few other great designers. Of course, I have some go-to podcasts that I listen to, some thought … Read more “Things I have learned to become a better designer”
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In this final post of the series, I will wrap up my tips for prototyping and leave you with some helpful tips, tools, and resources. View the previous posts in this series: … Read more “Digital Product Design Prototyping Part 3 of 3”
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This is a part 2 continuation from part 1 of this 3 part series. I previously opened up the topic of how to create a great prototype. In this next post, I … Read more “Digital Product Design Prototyping Part 2 of 3”
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In many industries, prototyping is a necessary aspect of the “create and build” process. Prototypes are used for multiple reasons from research to concepting, and from demonstration to communication. Depending on the … Read more “Digital Product Design Prototyping Part 1 of 3”
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Do designers need to know how to code?
(there are many fields of design and this post relates more towards interaction/UI/UX design)
This question seems to be getting a lot of exposure … Read more “Do designers need to know how to code?”
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I frequently come across designs that use placeholders, as this is a common practice in the design industry. I think we’re all familiar with “lorem ipsum” and “John Doe.” Those work well … Read more “John Doe sucks – designing for worse case scenarios”
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I’m just going to throw down a quick tutorial on how to create a custom skin for a Spark Button for Flex 4 using Flash Builder.
Everyone has their own folder structure … Read more “Custom Spark Button Skin using MXML”
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The Photobucket Visual Search application we (EffectiveUI) designed and developed won the Web Marketing Association Outstanding Achievement in Web Development award for 2009!
This is a great acknowledgment as we faced several … Read more “Photobucket Visual Search (Silverlight) wins WMA Award!”
Continue ReadingWe (Effective UI) just finished up a new Silverlight application with Photobucket.
The app is called Visual Search, and is designed to encourage visual exploration within Photobucket’s massive library of photos … Read more “Photobucket Visual Search featuring Windows Live integration”
Continue ReadingThe winners have been decided! This was an awesome contest and the turnout was great. As mentioned in the previous post, the entries were definitely outstanding and creative.
First Place:
Undefined by … Read more “Skin to Win Challenge WINNERS!”
I started messing around in Microsoft Expression Design 2.
After dabbling around in it, I wanted to see if I could do some illustrating in it. I decided to work on a … Read more “Illustration in Microsoft Expression Design”
Continue ReadingJuan Sanchez from Scalenine.com, just announced the Scalenine Skin to Win Challenge, sponsored by: EffectiveUI and Adobe. This is such a good idea and I think it is great that … Read more “Scalenine Skin to Win Challenge!”
Continue ReadingI’m a little late on blogging about the release of Discovery Earth Live. It is an online application built in Flex which allows user to cross reference earth related data and information … Read more “Discovery Earth Live – 3D RIA”
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