Design, Arts, Life: The Blog of an Interactive Designer1-800-867-5309Today I published a new Opinion on MIX Online regarding how to get the most out of Twitter, the hot micro-blogging service, and extend its reach for you and your business. Check it out here: http://visitmix.com/Opinions/Getting-Beyond-the-Simple-Stream
For me, there are two particularly magical things about Twitter: The open API and the immediacy of use/feedback/interaction. [...]
During the initial exercise in working out the I.A. for the PDC09 site, we used the process of “card sorting.” It had been a while since I had gone through that exercise, and remembered how very useful it can be.
Glimmer: a jQuery Interactive Design Tool is a prototype from the Mix Online Labs which makes jQuery accessible through a visual tool. The objective for Glimmer is pretty simple: to enable the power of jQuery through an interactive design surface. If jQuery is the “write less, do more” JavaScript library, then Glimmer is the “write none, do more” jQuery design tool. Glimmer has three core audiences: power users, designers and developers.
This interview’s been up for a little while, but thought I’d at least get an archive of it as a reference point for later. I thought it was a good interview revolving around the developer/designer workflow and what I thought would be good design-oriented sessions at MIX09
Tim Aidlin, is a User Experience (aka "UX") [...]