May 5th, 2010 by admin
Here’s a link to get you thinking about future possibilities.
http://limi.net/articles/plone-advent-calendar/
Alex Limi is one of the founders of the Plone CMS and has been the UI/UX lead for this very successful open-source project since it was launched in 2003 or so.
I’ve been following his work for a few years now, and just had a couple pints of beer with him and other top Plonistas the other night here in Evanston at the CMSExpo.
Very good article with some great advice and references from a Master UI designer.
One of the links from Limi : http://24ways.org/2009/make-your-mockup-in-markup
Great stuff
I also attended an excellent presentation by another friend, Nate Aune, who demoed the “Deliverance” technology, a server process which allows any CMS to be themed using any standard HTML/CSS theme (even taking an existing web site as a theme file)!
http://bit.ly/8ZesMc
Creating Designs to Change Culture
GEORGE LOIS
The most thrilling thing as a designer is making something that becomes a cultural phenomenon and impacts people. WATCH ยป
http://bigthink.com/users/georgelois
February 4th, 2010 by admin
Hello! I’d just like to note that while I find that the Billings/Daylight iPhone App promises to be extremely useful, I will not pay one cent further to Marketcircle until some of the glaring, serious, unbelievable UX issues are dealt with in the desktop Apps. The continued inability to choose a sort order, whether for contacts by last name; projects & opportunities by date added or modified, etc etc is surely unprecedented in Macintosh software, and violates in very fundamental ways the most basic of Apples UI guidelines. I just don’t understand how an application suite which is so WELL DONE in many ways, can be guilty of this level of obliviousness at the most fundamental user experience level. So, sadly, until there’s a FREE update which addresses this crucial management concern, I will no longer recommend your products. And I will most certainly not “subscribe” to Daylight/Billings App Mobile. I do look forward to these issues being resolved, but, again, I can’t believe they were allowed to reach version 0.9, let alone 3.9. Thanks
http://marketcircle.com
Publishers of some really great, but fundamentally flawed small business and knowledge management apps for OS X.
Billings, Daylight, etc
January 26th, 2010 by admin
22 minute screencast movie developing a CSSZenGarden.com theme using the open-source Aptana Studio IDE – 171MB Download available at http://www.semiotx.com/client-access/art-440-clarke-college-dubuque
There is a low-resolution version here: http://gallery.me.com/peterf#100023
January 7th, 2010 by admin
RE: http://www.creativepro.com/blog/typetalk-hidden-secrets-indesign-s-findchange
Ilene, great to see the word about GREP finally getting around.
I’ve been a great fan of regular expressions for a couple of decades 
both as a programmer and as a designer who deals with highly structured documents (or ones that should be but aren’t quite!) ID CS4 has a wonderful addition to the Paragraph Styles definition window.
“Grep Styles” allow you to define a regular expression which when it matches will apply the assigned style to the matched string… So, I’m a big fan (also) of dropping the height of hypens and dashes by a point or so. In typical text fonts, the dashes (Em, En, hyphen) are designed to run at the x-height of the font, which is fine when they’re used with ALL-CAPS or 1789-89 (numbers), but in body-copy, they will often be too high.
I first need a Character Style which I’ll call “Dash-Hypen“, where I define a “Baseline shift” of -1.0 pt which I’ll apply to the ‘class’ of ‘dashes’.
Then in my Paragraph style (perhaps for Body Text, or even Default) I select “Grep Style” and make a new Grep Style, selecting “Dash-Hypen” to match a set of all the dashes [~_~=~~~--]
The square brackets mean that any one of the characters within will match, rather than a string consisting of all of them. The real advantage here is that you can set this once, and both existing text and new copy will all have the same styles applied.
With a grep search, as you describe, you’ll have to remember to run it again after adding new content!
I’m posting this note on ideaswords.com also!
Cheers!
peter
ideaswords.com – Semiotx
slowprint.com – Letterpress
December 19th, 2009 by admin
Testing wp for iPhone