Refresh Tallahassee » Mike Houghton http://www.refreshtallahassee.org A community of web designers and developers Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:23:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Yahoo! Style Guide http://www.refreshtallahassee.org/2010/06/the-yahoo-style-guide/ http://www.refreshtallahassee.org/2010/06/the-yahoo-style-guide/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:23:48 +0000 Mike Houghton http://www.refreshtallahassee.org/?p=720 Coming July 6th to a bookstore near you. Learn how to write and edit for a global audience through best practices from Yahoo! Attract more readers; give them the gold-standard editorial experience on your site. “The Yahoo! Style Guide” shows you how. Read more.

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Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.

Source: DesignApplause

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Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

Source: Adaptive Path Blog

]]> http://www.refreshtallahassee.org/2010/05/mag/feed/ 0 Kevin Hale: How to Design Web Apps People Love http://www.refreshtallahassee.org/2010/04/join-us-for-our-next-meeting/ http://www.refreshtallahassee.org/2010/04/join-us-for-our-next-meeting/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:34:03 +0000 Mike Houghton http://www.refreshtallahassee.org/?p=693 How to Design Web Apps People Love: An evening with Kevin Hale

As a part of the Wufoo team, Kevin Hale is no stranger to creating wonderful web apps. In his presentation, Kevin will be showing how to focus on user interaction in order to create an experience that users will love.

UPDATE: Join us from 5:30 on for pre-meeting cocktails at Versailles (located next to 101 Restaurant & Lounge, directly across from the Challenger Learning Center).

Thursday, May 27th
7:00 – 8:30 PM
The Challenger Learning Center
200 South Duval Street
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Cost: FREE

About Our Speaker:
Kevin Hale is the co-founder of Infinity Box, Inc., a company seeded by Y Combinator. He is responsible for safe guarding the user experience of the Wufoo application and designing every pixel of its interface. As much as Kevin likes keeping things clean and reliable, he loves innovation. He writes about interface design issues for the web development blog, Particletree and served as editor-in-chief of the web development magazine, Treehouse. As a child, Kevin was the kid in class who ate a box of crayons for a dollar.

And a Word of Appreciation
Special thanks to Alan Hanstein at Paragon New Media and Darren Allen at White Dog Design Group for helping sponsor and coordinate our meeting!

How to Design Web Apps People Love (13.4 MB)

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Source: poptech.org

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The summary: My verdict for the future of web design is to stay away from expensive conferences. If you are a conference person and can spare the money, good on ya! But don’t be fooled into thinking that you have to attend them to keep up with future web design trends. Attending smaller, local meet-ups with like-minded people and following the ‘celebrities’ via Twitter is a much cheaper and rewarding experience.

The source: brizk design blog

That being said, stay tuned for details about our next meeting in late May. It looks to be another GREAT one. In fact, we may even hold the event in the Planetarium at the Challenger Learning Center!

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Source: How To Organize Information And Improve Your Design

]]> http://www.refreshtallahassee.org/2010/03/the-principle-of-the-five-hat-racks/feed/ 0 Join us for an evening with Andrew Maier! http://www.refreshtallahassee.org/2010/03/join-us-for-an-evening-with-andrew-maier/ http://www.refreshtallahassee.org/2010/03/join-us-for-an-evening-with-andrew-maier/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:48:15 +0000 Mike Houghton http://www.refreshtallahassee.org/?p=667 Polishing User Interface Design: An evening with Andrew Maier

The mind behind UXBooth.com uses Photoshop to deconstruct some of the most common UI effects from scratch to add greater depth and realism to your work.

Tuesday, March 30th
7:00 – 8:30 PM
Room 249 (a 100-seat auditorium), FSU Fine Arts Building
530 W. Call Street St.
Tallahassee, FL 32301

Andrew MaierAbout Andrew: Hailing from the great city of Atlanta, GA, Andrew Maier designs interactions and user experiences for a variety of clients. He writes, speaks, and teaches about design and its intersection with the internet. In addition he serves as the editor–in–chief of the user experience blog, UX Booth. When he’s not crazy busy, Andrew likes singing, practicing yoga and drinking coffee, like a good little hippie should.

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