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  • Advice from Silent Citadel

    don’t worry too much about how you look, worry about how you feel. make art, all the time. If you’re not working on something be planning for the next thing. yes, we can do that, for sure Drink enough water. try to have a decent relationship with at least one family member. Always be reading…

  • UX Interviewing, a Meetup

    Last night, I attended my first Seattle Information Architecture & User Experience Meetup. A big thanks to Misty Weaver, @meaningmeasure, for hosting. It was nice seeing familiar faces, my ol’ web design teacher, my technologist mentor and fellow alumni and precious students from Seattle Central Creative Academy. This was part two of a two part meetup. An encore…

  • You are a Graphic Designer: Playtesting

    The log reads: PLAY TEST #2 fix. make different winner pages so the back button works. fix. Go Back to the USA. heeds new pics. fix. Your family is loving. page back button on winner doesn’t work. next time make the text boxes button. PLAYTEST ONE BROKE Afer fwe link hits. Wow. That was kind…

  • Designing Beyond Photoshop: Eng speaks at Infocamp Seattle 2013

    Phannipha Arunyaangkul, UX Designer in Seattle talked at InfoCamp 2013 about how Photoshop is a pretty rudimentary tool when it comes to app prototyping. UX tools include Photoshop and wireframing. But, interactions aren’t static. Facebook Home features a chat bubble unlike anything previous. “…something like Facebook Home is completely beyond the abilities of Photoshop as a design tool. How…

  • Open Source UX: Hoby Van Hoose leads a conversation at Infocamp Seattle 2013

    Hoby Van Hoose (hobyvh) talked at InfoCamp 2013 about Open Source UX and the emergence of culture and community around user experience. User Experience is a budding discipline. How can we share information the way “view source” allows coders to learn from each other? The rate of innovation was faster because coders can see how a website is…

  • Designers at Hackathons: Eric Bell speaks at Infocamp Seattle 2013

    Eric Bell (ericthebell) talked at InfoCamp 2013 about Hackthons and why they are awesome! Eric Bell is a designer, formerly Seattle-based, currently lives in SF and attends hackathons. During his talk, he showed us some of his team projects at hackathons. A typical hackathon is a weekend of work, has an attendance of primarily developers. It’s sometimes sponsored by…

  • Design-thinking Workshop: Designing for a Healthcare Movement: How to Get to Minimum Viable Product Now — IxDA Seattle

    Design-thinking Workshop: Designing for a Healthcare Movement: How to Get to Minimum Viable Product Now — IxDA Seattle. As part of this year’s Seattle Design Festival: Design in Health, I attended a “design-thinking” workshop. The design leaders at Substantial executed a hands-on workshop that illuminated the first step of problem-solving within the context of creating a minimum viable product (MVP)…

  • Sound Game Animation 2

    I spent some time animating this next part. I am getting a sense of how AfterEffects works with this type of animation and it’s thrilling. The next iteration is going to be a lot more smooth and polished. Music “Hey Kid/Billy Goat Stomp” by teru 2008 – Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)teru / CC BY-NC 3.0 Earlier Post…