Refresh Tallahassee

John Cleese on Creativity

Mike Houghton — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:09:22 +0000

Cartoon for the day

Mike Houghton — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:33:29 +0000

Source: Boagworld

SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria

Mike Houghton — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:33:10 +0000

SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria from MFA Interaction Design on Vimeo.

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.

WordPress 3.0 ~ Fatal Error Fix

Mike — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:57:25 +0000

Yesterday I “automatically” upgraded the Refresh Tallahassee site from WordPress 2.9 to 3.0, and when I was finished, all that remained of the site was a fatal error message. Nice. After a little searching, I found out that the Event Calendar plug-in was the culprit. After removing this plug-in via FTP, everything now seems to be working fine. Now you know.

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

Kevin Hale: How to Design Web Apps People Love

Mike Houghton — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:34:03 +0000

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)