Written by David Charney
Posted: June 7, 2008 (2 months, 3 weeks ago) | 2 comments
Hey all - I am playing around with a new video player design. Kind of a motion graphicsy kinda thing. I will keep this image updated but comment or email any feedback. Time for a bike ride and a few min away from this humming computer whatsit.
FYI - That is a priceless pic of my buddy Jon (one of the coolest and interesting dudes on this planet Earth). It would be a crime not to use that image.
Written by David Charney
Posted: June 6, 2008 (2 months, 3 weeks ago) | 0 comments
It is very interesting to me how design is perceived. The other day I saw a print design that was based on a design that was done in the mid-80s. The design from the 80s was cheesy, had a bad layout, poor color selection, and ugly font. Not the best design. The new print design that was created to mock the design of the 80s used very similar colors, fonts, and layout… quite cheesy, but this new design I thought was great. My mind perceived it as a greatly detailed throw-back to what was standard when the bee’s knees of apparel was 5 inch shoulder pads. If you were to put the designs side by side and reverse the dates they were created, I just might like the original better. Mental madness… on to the next design!
Written by David Charney
Posted: June 2, 2008 (2 months, 3 weeks ago) | 0 comments
Well the first RIApalooza event has come and gone and I must say I enjoyed it. This two day event had good speakers, good topics, a nice mix of theory and demonstrations, good networking, and a healthy turnout of supporters. It was great to see Microsoft and Adobe (both sponsors) working together for the good of the cause. It was also nice to see all programs and platforms recognized.
Dave Meeker from Roundarch did a great job kicking off the event by discussing the core of all this RIAmadness. What, Why, Who, When - it was all covered.
Tim Heuer & Corrina Barber from Microsoft showed the ease designers and developers can look forward to using Blend. Good demonstration. I saw Blend on a lot of laptops by the end of the day.
Josh Holmes from Microsoft & Michael Labriola from Digital Primates had a great presentation on RIA. From practices to theory they covered a broad spectrum of the key components of RIA and answered that big question, “What’s the big deal?”.
Geoff Cubitt, President & CTO of Roundarch (and a Purdue man) discussed RIA while relating it to the fine work of Roundarch. He discussed different technologies (Flash, Flex, Dojo, AJAX, Silverlight) and touched a bit on selling RIA to the client.
Anthony Handley from Magenic did a great job showing designer & developer collaboration while bringing life to an application using Silverlight and XAML. He made it look so easy.
The one and only Corey Miller from Magenic (the guy who put Purdue on the map) recreated a Flash image gallery inside Silverlight and showed how to populate it with Flickr images. He did a nice job showing the many Flash designers and developers in the room that they don’t have to take that many steps back to start exploring Silverlight.
Ka Wai Cheung from We Are Mammoth discussed time saving RIA models and the power behind smart design.
So that’s a wrap. I hope this is the first of many.
