Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Penn UI Conference & HTML 5
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
I’m speaking at the upcoming Penn UI Conference July 21 & 22 in Philadelphia this year. It’s a great conference with a high profile history of speakers, so I was definitely honored to have been asked to contribute. My talk will be on HTML 5, and loosely based on my Smashing Magazine article: HTML 5 [...]
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SXSW Notes pt. 5 – Presenting Straight to the Brain
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
the brain has lots of distractions peple have different learning styles that need to be looked at Research there’s no research that says using templates & bullet points are the best way to present Book: Multimedia Learning we have assumptions about communications that we can send info and someone will receive it without a problem [...]
Tags: notes, presentation, sxsw
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SXSW Notes pt. 4 – Managing “Expert” Clients
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Making your clients feel good they call this the honeymoon phase meeting the team making a good 1st impression spend time outside the office finding out how they like to work bonding with the client Refining you approach how do you like to work how do the like to work? staying flexible Setting the ground [...]
Tags: project managment, sxsw
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SXSW Notes pt. 3 – CSS3
Friday, March 20th, 2009
This panel had representitives from each vendor (not apple) and they each took turns showcasing the upcoming CSS3 support in their browser. MOZ nth-child selector color module [opacity, rbga] border-image border-radius box-shadow * word-wrap:break-word * font-adjust @font-face @media queries ( @media(width:22em){blah} -moz-transform: skewX(20deg); -webkit-transform: skewX(20deg); Future from MOZ width calculations new layout systems for user [...]
Tags: CSS, sxsw
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SXSW Notes pt. 2 – Web Typography
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
sxswtypography.com Why do web designers complain about typography? web fonts are limiting SIFR Font stacks complexity consistency across platforms Where do you find inspiration? print design thebookcoverarchive.com the content itself Current implementation? Don’t pretend the Web is a book Cambria adoption is around 40% questionablecharacters.com Try to make the design work with the fonts you [...]
Tags: sxsw, typography
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5 Ways to Build a Better Team
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
I’m about to start a long day of travel back to the West coast (FLO to CLT to LAS to LAX) after visiting my family for Thanksgiving. And while I spend my last night in the Carolinas I’m thinking about how my current job compares to past jobs I’ve had, when it comes to the [...]
Tags: team building, workplace
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Keeping up with the times
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Everytime you turn around there’s something new in the web to learn. Whether it be another JQuery plugin (YAJPI), a new blogging service (YABS), social networking site (YASNS) a new way to handle CSS Sprites or yet another acronym to learn (YAATL). There’s so much to do and learn about, how do we keep up? [...]
Tags: firefox, rss, time
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Finding Inspiration
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
From time to time we all hit design funks when inspiration is hard to find and everything we make seems to look like crap (at least I do). Having some solid sources you can fall back on while in a slump can be a great asset. Most people I ask about inspiration will say something [...]
Tags: design, inspiration, links
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My Time at NC State
Monday, June 30th, 2008
About 3 years ago a fairly young department at NC State hired a 23 year old kid from Massachusetts who constantly made claims that CSS was the future of web development. I was that kid; And I condemned them all for their table-based web sites, then promptly converted them to CSS. NC State provided me [...]
Tags: employment, ncstate, usc
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