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The Yahoo! Style Guide

Mike Houghton — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:23:48 +0000

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.

Silverlight Design Contest

Christopher Bennage — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:45:04 +0000

I don’t find the prize all that motivating, but here’s the recently announced Ball Watch Contest.

10 Design Principles ~ Dieter Rams

Mike Houghton — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:47:31 +0000

Good design is innovative.
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

The surprising truth about what motivates us

Mike Houghton — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:48:05 +0000

Mag+

Mike Houghton — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:17:55 +0000

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

Source: Adaptive Path Blog

The Making of Florida One

Mike Houghton — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:04:59 +0000

Nick Bilton: Smart Content

Mike Houghton — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:11:31 +0000

Source: poptech.org

Web Design Conferences: just expensive blog posts?

Mike Houghton — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:21:24 +0000

As I continue to consider organizing a conference for the benefit of the Refresh Tallahassee family, I thought this post made a great (and sobering) point about the value of web design conferences in general.

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!

The Principle of the Five Hat Racks

Mike Houghton — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:14:57 +0000

Source: How To Organize Information And Improve Your Design

Web Development Specialist Job

Doug Furiato — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:31:46 +0000

The State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota (former Manatee Community College) is looking for a Web Development Specialist. They are using the OmniUpdate CMS. “Salary depending on experience”, but on a rainy February day in the Capital City the idea of moving south and being closer to beaches may seem particularly appealing. Also, this job is at the Bradenton campus, less than five miles away from the Ringling Museum of Art – just the place to go when you need inspiration for that Rubens-inspired Drupal theme you’ve been pondering.