Web 3.0 Why Separate Style, Content, Form and Function?
Let me explain what those mean in regard to the web, and then give you the top three reasons to care about dividing the labors. Style, content, form and function is one way to clarify what goes into web design. Style is your colors, your curves, your sassiness and aesthetic. It’s the (static) visual fun (read more)
Designing for Distraction: Engagement
Today, I present the second part of a two-part article on Designing for Distraction (click for slides). Yesterday, we looked at who the distracted are, what distracts them, and how to design for them. Today we’ll talk about Designing for Engagement (or Readers-First Design). For Engagement When we design to eliminate distractions, we design for (read more)
Designing for Distraction: The Distracted
Today, I present the first part of a two-part article on Designing for Distraction (click for slides). One of the key changes we’ve had since the advent of the internet is the increasing emphasis on design. And digital design is evolving more and more into a focused and engagement centered practice. Designing for distraction, both (read more)
Increase WP Upload Size Max
So I was having a problem with uploading a large video to a wordpress site, and I came across this site: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-increase-the-maximum-file-upload-size-in-wordpress/ And let me share my experience and what worked, as I did finally get it to work. Like in all things I started with number 1 of the three ways. Which was to adjust (read more)
GIT $home directory using Powershell
So I’ve been trying to get GIT to start in “D:\Google Drive\Grad school\Adv web 2” and for the life of me I couldn’t get it to work. I also wanted to change my $home variable so I can quickly move around. There are some great sites with some answers if you’re using pure Git Bash: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7017143/git-bash-how-to-default-to-other-directory-instead-of-home-directory (read more)
Repeal Act 39 campaign mockup
Repeal Act 39 Campaign My client is the campaign to repeal the assisted suicide law (act 39) in Vermont, which was narrowly passed last year. It should be noted that the this mockup campaign is for class, and any implemented campaign will involve different photos. These stock photos are for illustration purposes only. For several (read more)
Merry Christmas from UF
For our final Photoshop assignment, we were to make a Christmas card that the University of Florida or some sub-division thereof could send out. I decided to make it from the whole university. For this project, I found a nice Christmas scene and good picture of Albert and Alberta (our mascots). I then turned Albert (read more)
New Design for Newegg
This week for Photoshop, we were to (re)design an app for a retail company. I chose a company I’ve been looking at a lot the last few weeks, Newegg. Also, I just bought a great Black Friday deal from them. Again, this is for a class and I’m not affiliated with the company. For this design, I (read more)
“Big Data” Ethics
Big Data is changing the shape of business and our personal lives. Everyday, whether we know it or not someone is doing data analysis on us. Think about that. Some corporation is doing data analysis on you, possibly hundreds of times a day. Should we be creeped out? Well of course, and perhaps not. Big (read more)
Prince of Peace
Our major project for Research Methods in Digital Communications was to “select a small business/non-profit/organization with the goal of assisting with their SEO and Google Analytics.” There were several parts to this project. It included identifying an organization, researching it, preparing a situation analysis & SWOT, a final strategy book, and a class presentation. Situation Analysis/SWOT (read more)