Refresh Tallahassee

Peter Pinnell stands in front of a camera and speaks on this video for about thirty minutes about art, cups, intimacy, context, and more. Here’s a brief example:

• We’ll look at things that we won’t nudge with our foot.
• We’ll nudge things with our foot that we won’t pick up in our hand.
• We’ll pick things up in our hand that we won’t put up to our mouth.
• We’ll put things to our mouth that we won’t put in our mouth.

Interesting stuff. Link courtesy of: CSS-Tricks

Published by Mike Houghton . Post a comment . Jun 15, 2009 . Filed under: Links Elsewhere

Please welcome Christos…

Published by Christos Mantzanas . Post a comment . Jun 15, 2009 . Filed under: Member Sign-ups

Please welcome Rodney. As a reminder to any new member sign-ups, I’ll have to create a post for you (as you) for your profile to show up on the Member page.

Published by Rodney Johnson . Post a comment . Jun 11, 2009 . Filed under: Member Sign-ups

Please welcome back Rafael Calderon! After an adventure in Houston for the past year or so, Rafael has clicked his heels together three times and realized that there’s no place like home (in Tallahassee).

Published by Rafael Calderon . Post a comment . Jun 11, 2009 . Filed under: Member Sign-ups

Here’s a reprint from Cameron Moll, who reprinted from Mike Davidson, who found it on the Photojojo site (phew!). Anyway, it’s a nice list of free photos for your perusal.

Photos courtesy of: The Library of Congress

Published by Mike Houghton . Post a comment . Jun 10, 2009 . Filed under: Links Elsewhere

An interface designer has a crappy experience on the American Airlines site, so he decides to offer up a redesign… and then gets a nice response from one of the UX architects at American.

The gist of the response… “But–and I guess here’s the thing I most wanted to get across–simply doing a home page redesign is a piece of cake. You want a redesign? I’ve got six of them in my archives. It only takes a few hours to put together a really good-looking one, as you demonstrated in your post. But doing the design isn’t the hard part, and I think that’s what a lot of outsiders don’t really get, probably because many of them actually do belong to small, just-get-it-done organizations. But those of us who work in enterprise-level situations realize the momentum even a simple redesign must overcome, and not many, I’ll bet, are jumping on this same bandwagon. They know what it’s like.”

Published by Mike Houghton . Post a comment . Jun 03, 2009 . Filed under: Links Elsewhere

If I ever taught graphic design, this article would be required reading. BTW, if you read all the way to the bottom, you’ll find a video link to her TED presentation titled “Great design is serious (not solemn).” Oh, and if you ever have to speak in public and the mic is built into the podium, NEVER hold the remote in your hand and have it make inadvertent clicking sounds against the podium while you’re speaking.

Published by Mike Houghton . 1 Comment . Jun 02, 2009 . Filed under: Links Elsewhere