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Posts Tagged ‘Websites’
Opinion: The Beginning of The Archivist
A couple years ago, my friend irhetoric and I were chatting about Twitter, as we were at the end of building Flotzam, a social networking aggregator tool that collects and visualizes the ephemeral information floating around in the social sphere. In some ways, this ephemerality is beautiful: all this information swirls around us like leaves that appear and decay over time. On the other hand, if this information is valuable, capturing and keeping it could be useful.
Opinion: The Evolution of The Archivist
In this post, part II of a series, I’ll take a step back and explain how we concepted and executed The Archivist Web (alpha)and talk about what came before the design and code. Check it out on MIX Online
The Archivist Web (alpha)
A few years ago, a co-worker and friend of mine, Karsten Januszewski, built The Archivist Desktop (alpha). Last week we released The Archvist Web (alpha), along with a few assoticated articles. Please check The Archivist out and let us know what you think. Introducing The Archvist The Beginning of The Archivist The Archivist in Academia [...]
TechEd Online (re)Launched
To correspond with the TechEd North America 2010 conference held in New Orleans June 7 – 10, I was tasked with stewarding the redesign of the TechEd Online site. This site is the home for thousands of videos from TechEd N.A., and past events, and will continue to grow as TechEd makes its way around [...]
Opinion: "Cheers to saying no"
I published a new Opinion today, which stemmed from a conversation Tami and I had about working with one potential client. I’ve been in this situation may times and it totally stinks. You’d like to get the work, you want to be nice, but you *know* that client is a total pain in the ass [...]
SPLAB Launched
David Sherwin of Frog Design and I worked together to put together this website for SPLAB, a Seattle-based non-profit focused on spoken-word poetry. The site is built on WordPress and was designed and developed in a week. Visit SPLAB Now
A Two-Image CSS3 Framework for Thunderkick
As a web designer/developer for years, I’ve been working in xHTML and CSS2 to build sites for clients and myself. Currently, though, there’s a movement – as many of you know – to develop and approve the working standard of HTML5 and CSS3. I’ve been working a bit with both of these emerging standards and [...]
Some new Press for MIX Online and The work we do
Two new items came across the wire today, which I thought was pretty cool. First, "Sarah In Tampa" picked up on the new update to The Archivist, which Karsten implemented in the middle of one of our MIX Online meetings. I think it’s pretty cool. As Sarah states, this new update: Fixes a couple of [...]
Glimmer in the Wild
Recently we on the MIX Online team here at Microsoft released Glimmer, a tool for adding jQuery animations to your website. Fabian Anderwald, a web-designer, recently contacted us, letting us know about two sites he recently designed for customers. He used Glimmer to produce a simple image-sequence and dropdown on these two sites. Fabian writes: [...]
MIX Online: Designing the pdc09 Experience
I’ve posted a new Opinion to MIX Online. This one speaks to the design considerations when designing out the PDC09 experience. http://visitmix.com/Opinions/Designing-the-pdc09-Experience Throughout the lead-up and through the conference itself, I’ll try and provide insights into “the sausage-making” of an event like this, specifically geared toward the designers PDC09 Since 1991, the Professional Developers Conference [...]
Where is the lavender frog?
Thanks to http://www.wpfdev.com/2008/10/22/mix-online-relaunch-beautiful-design-and-silverlight-goodness/
MIX Online on istartedsomething.com
Big thanks to Long Zheng for the great write-up on the MIX Online re-launch. He brings up a great point about the site: In fact what’s pretty amazing is that the “MIX Online” site is validated 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant. That’s something worth noting for a Microsoft site. My fellow Designer/UXE, Nishant Kothary, really [...]
<3 your "8-bit love format"
Thanks to Sean at Idea Kitchen for the great write up on MIX Online and the MIX09 Conference site. I really like the new format, with labs being the playground for code. And from the look of it it looks like they will be updated with fresh content. They’ve started off with Oomph, a lab [...]
MIX09 | <3 Your Web
Today we launched the MIX09 Conference site. Our goal is to connect with designers, developers and web-technology enthusiasts to share knowledge and create community around “The Next Web Now.” “There’s something different in the air at MIX09. Some might call it love – love of the interaction between designers and developers; love of inspiration and [...]
New Non-Profit Site
Be sure to check out the newly-redesigned-by-me JustCauz.org site. The Just Cauz Foundation raises money and awareness for local non-profits through social events that are aimed at Seattle’s young professionals. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for young people in Seattle to give back to their community, while appreciating the time [...]
The New Iteration
The New Iteration: How XAML Transforms the Collaboration Between Developers and Designers in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) My buddy Karsten Januszewski wrote this great article about designer/developer workflow using WPF. I designed the graphics and site for him. Enjoy. The New Iteration: How XAML Transforms the Collaboration Between Developers and Designers in Windows Presentation Foundation [...]
MIX08 Event Site
Using strict CSS and symantic HMTL, I created the MIX08 Conference site (shown) and Blog site, both of which were pushed live in November of 2008. Designed in Microsoft Expression Blend, a Silverlight module was included on the homepage, as well, which led to registration. Now in its third year, MIX is an intimate opportunity [...]
Uberdemo (MSFT Internal) released
So, yes, this is an internal-to-Microsoft only site, but I figured I’d at least post a screenshot. My main task at work is to design and develop demonstrations used in conferences, to work with partners, etc … to demonstrate next-generation technologies such as Silverlight, Expression Blend, WPF, XAML, and the like. My team has developed [...]
PDC07 Website and Print Comps
Unfortunately, PDC07 was cancelled, but I had the opportunity to run through some ideas for the site and Creative.
Keep It Simple, Stupid! | Smashing Magazine
The Mix07 site that I designed has been picked up as one of the top 50 sites of 2006 designed using CSS. Yay for me. Link to Keep It Simple, Stupid! | Smashing Magazine