April 2010
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PCMag: Apple iPad video review
Here’s a great early overview… PCMag: Apple iPad video review from PCMag.com Reviews on Vimeo. PCMag’s Tim Gideon takes an in-depth look at Apple’s first tablet, the iPad, prior to the April 3rd launch. Check out iWork, Maps, iBooks, and other apps and read the full review at www.pcmag.com
March 2010
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How to Make Procrastination Productive
Work Smart: How to Make Procrastination Productive From Fastcompany.com
February 2010
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Facebook Demos New Design
Here’s another interesting video. If you are in any way involved with website design, development, or management, you spend a lot of time looking at other successful websites in an attempt to discover what works well. During this process you’ll often contemplate what drove certain decisions. Therefore it’s very intriguing when you get a chance to hear an actual Q&A about such...
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Charlie Rose on The iPad, With David Carr, Michael...
Despite the various “glaring omissions” that have been well debated in the past week, I agree that the iPad will be a success. It may not fully blossom, past the early adopters, until a v1.5 or v2, but it’s going to be very popular. As a UI designer I want one to develop for, as a consumer I want one because it looks so fun to play with. Anyhow, this Charlie Rose segment...
January 2010
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trendwatching.com's January 2010 Trend Briefing
trendwatching.com has released their latest report. Here’s a quick summary of the 10 trends: Business as unusual Urbany Real-time reviews (F)luxury Mass Mingling Eco-easy Tracking & alerting Embedded generosity Profile myning MaturialismView the full report online or Download the PDF version. Source: www.trendwatching.com. One of the world’s leading trend firms, trendwatching.com...
December 2009
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TrendsSpotting's 2010 Social Media Influencers
Trend Predictions in 140 Characters TrendsSpotting’s 2010 Social Media Influencers - Trend Predictions in 140 CharactersView more documents from Taly Weiss.
November 2009
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Designers vs Developers- Coming together to build...
Check out this Presentation by my colleague, author & designer Theresa Neil. This was from her presentation at Øredev on 11/3/09. It includes many examples, resource links and videos too…Designers vs Developers- Coming together to build the best RIAsView more documents from Theresa Neil.
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Digg Dialogg: Tony Hawk (video)
Dang, it has been months since I’ve had a chance to add to the blog here. I enjoyed this video interview and thought I’d share it. Digg Founder Kevin Rose asks users’ top questions to skateboarding legend Tony Hawk…
June 2009
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Browser-based Web Browser Testing: Litmus vs....
Below is a quick comparison of two browser testing tools. There are others out there, feel free to add in comments. However, since Adobe just made another press push for BrowserLab I thought it would be a good time to compare these two tools that I’ve been trying out. Litmus Litmus is out of the UK, and has been around in some capacity since 2005. They currently offer both an HTML-based web...
May 2009
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ArtBistro Ranks their Top 25 Cities for Designers...
ArtBistro.com: “Which cities offer the most overall value in 2009? While all of these communities have a healthy art and design community the emphasis on this list is the cost of living…” Below is a quick summary. Read the full article here to get all the details: Austin, TX San Antonio, TX: Salt Lake City, UT Oklahoma City, OK Raleigh-Cary Metropolitan Area, NC Seattle, WA...
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How to Optimize for Google, a 3-part Series from...
The slashing of paid search advertising is just one symptom of the current economic situation. I’m seeing a lot of questions out there, from Twitter to direct inquiries, regarding the dark art of SEO. While optimizing the heck out of your META tags may never grow your “Organic Search” results to the volume they might have been at when you were spending thousands of...
March 2009
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Top 10 Reasons Why The iPod Shuffle 3rd Gen Is A...
Controls integrated into earbuds rules out 3rd party headphones (notwithstanding 3rd party headphones w/ new iPod shuffle compatible control$) Lose the earbuds and you get to pay $29 to replace them - this kind of defeats the purpose of a ‘cheap’ iPod - like your kid isn’t going to lose or break these headphones in like 4 days No click wheel, no screen - it doesn’t look...
February 2009
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"What Blogger Should Do"
Evan Williams (evhead) has done a nice job at outlining what myself and many others have been pondering - are sites like digg, flickr, Twitter and friendfeed signaling the “death of blogging”? I for one have been using some of these tools to share links and blurt out thoughts, and have been “neglecting” this poor little blog. Because of this, I’m planning some changes...
November 2008
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New Report from iLounge Includes Cool Color Chart...
iLounge.com recently released its 2009 iPod + iPhone Buyers’ Guide. The PDF download is heavy on content (as well as ads), and it’s been a yearly tradition for iNerds 5 years now. The 2009 version has a new section called “Know Your Colors” that shows various models, in a color family layout. A new take on the usual color chart. Get the full guide here.
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Twittermaven Survey Results:Users perception of...
Twittermaven recently surveyed 240 people with 6 questions regarding interacting with brands. Here are some key findings, as well as a sample chart. Most users (89%) agree that brands should engage their customers on Twitter. almost 90% of users would frown upon poor or inappropriate brand use of Twitter. 60% of respondents would recommend a company based on their presence on Twitter and 80% of...
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Excellent Example of an Interactive Product...
Drobo is a recently announced product from Data Robotics, Inc. It puts a new spin on high-capacity desktop storage. The way in which the product differs from traditional desktop hard-drives can seem a subtle at first. Therefore, they have created a very effective product configuration / simulation tool that they call the “Drobolator Capacity Calculator”. This is one of the most useful...
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October 2008
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Music Download Inconsistency Syndrome (MDIS), and...
What’s a consumer to do? Here’s the scenario, I wanted to buy and download the new album by The Cure. So I started to dig around the top music download stores, and my impulse to buy was drowned out by my aggravation with the Music Industry. In my quest to figure out which site had the album for the best price, I began to wonder - why should the price vary at all? Shouldn’t I just...
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Video: Jason Fried at "Business of Software"
Business of Software conference September 2008: Jason Fried is founder of 37signals (developers of Basecamp and Ruby on Rails) and Signal vs Noise blogger
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I hope the Mac mini goes 'Green', instead of just...
Rumors are flying that the Mac mini may be on its way out. Such rumors seem to indicate that the mini will either go away, or see a refresh. Let’s hope it is the latter. The Mac mini not only needs a specs refresh, it needs a refocusing of it’s market position. Rather than being marketed as ‘the underpowered Mac for people too cheap to buy a real Mac’, it should be...
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Adobe now shipping CS4 and Flash Player 10
From Adobe press release: “Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 product family, the highly-anticipated release of industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Delivering radical breakthroughs in workflow efficiency and packed with hundreds of innovative, time saving...
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10 Tools for Analyzing Twitter Activity
Feel the need to track some tweets? Get your twitter analytics fix, by using these handy web-based tools… Twitter Grader gives you a grade based on the power of your Twitter profile. Twinfulence: a simple tool using the Twitter API to to measure the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus. TweetStats helps you graph your...
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Rutland Plywood launches e-commerce site for...
J.Y. Design helped Rutland Plywood Corporation design and launch a website for their new RiggerCore product line. The site offers information and online purchasing options for RiggerCore Industrial Strength Outrigger and Crane pads. Check it out at www.riggercore.com
September 2008
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Global Insight bought in deal worth $200m
Economic forecasting firm Global Insight Inc. of Waltham (and past client of J.Y. Design) yesterday said it agreed to be purchased for $200 million by IHS Inc., of Englewood, Colo. “Global Insight was formed in May 2001 when Joseph E. Kasputys, now its chief executive, acquired Data Resources Inc. of Lexington and its rival Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates of Philadelphia. Kasputys...
August 2008
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LogoLounge.Com Reports on 2008 Logo Trends
LogoLounge.Com recently posted an insightful article covering their observations on 2008 logo trends. They have organized examples into 15 trend themes: Supernova Fine Line FoldOver Global Expansion Loops Jawbreakers Strobe Nimbus Stitch Colorblind Amoeba Facets Doodles Flourish Fibrous Read their full report to see the various examples of logo designs.