I’ve accepted a new position with Prolifiq Software and will be joining them as a UI designer on their UX team. I’ll be tackling both Web and Mobile UI design and helping to flesh out the standards and practices of their fledgling UX team. The company is a dynamic, growing startup with an expanding product line so I’m sure they’ll keep me busy ...
Prolifiq operates differently than some other tech companies I have worked for. They give you credits toward purchasing your own computer workstation. In my case, I decided to get a new Wacom Cintiq Companion 1 as my primary work computer. I'm outfitting it with a Dell Ultrasharp UW2913 monitor, and an external keyboard, mouse, and a Wacom Intuous 3 ultrawide tablet. I'm finding this to be a very competant productivity machine. I have a good portable Cintiq-like tablet with a HD display, and then when I'm docked at my desk, I have a secondary wacom tablet with a large external display to spread out on ...
After roughly six years, I've had to move on and say farewell to Thug. I appreciate the years I had there and genuinely appreciated the range and diversity of projects I got to tackle. I found the range of work kept me agile and always striving towards new skills. I wish them the best ...
I went to the June AEPDX/3DPDX user group meeting in Portland recently. It was a good chance for some folks from Adobe and Maxon to show off the latest features of After Effects CC and Cinema4d Lite via the Cinemaware plugin. I have to say the new features are definitely pushing the product in the right direction. I think the tighter integration with Cinema4d is a good thing and will be looking to see how it evolves. The improvements to the warp stabilizer, including the new reverse stabilize feature is insanely great. I’ll be looking to do some some tests over the summer with that ...
I went to Webvisions PDX 2013 this year. This is the third year in a row I’ve been to Webvisions at the Portland Convention Center. It’s a good show but you can tell it’s struggling a bit to find it’s comfort zone. I usually attend the Web-related workshops and sessions. This year I did two workshops on CSS3 UI Design and CSS3 Animation. I really found Rachel Nabor’s CSS3 Workshop and session to be pretty enlightening but also got me thinking about ways in which to apply this fairly bleeding edge tech. The obvious downsides to CSS3 animation is that there are very few tools to animate with so it’s mostly code driven, which for longer animations can be awkward ...
Although it's a work-in-progress, I'm slowly rolling out the new v6 site design. In addition to this I'll be updating the site framework as I develop new content ...
There were some good sessions at Webvisions 2012 this year in Portland, OR. I had a busy schedule, so I was not able to attend the full second day. The highlights for me this year were the HTML5 game design workshop using ImpactJS and the ILM talk with Jeff White. I really liked seeing the visual progression of the Avengers and how large of a data flow multiple teams were working on. Other great moments were the opening remarks by Baratunde Thurston. I’ve heard Baratunde before on Leo Leporte’s TWiT network, which is one of my favorite places for podcasts. He is a great and entertaining speaker. There was also a good talk on building web applications with web standards ...
Just a quick note to report that I've refreshed the site design and removed the old table-based layout to something more modern and CSS-based ...
Webvisions 2011 was an interesting conference. I enjoyed the discussion by the producers of Portlandia ...
Just a small note to say that I've rebooted the existing design into a new PHP framework and content management system. I'll be refreshing the design at some point soon. I'm really happy with the new framework - it's essentially a PHP derivative of a Ruby on Rails system, so it's very fun to develop with ...
The Thug team and I attended the UIE Roadshow session in Portland this year. Being a UX type group of designers and new media thinkers we thought it would be right up our alley. And it was, but I couldn't help but feel like I already knew a large number of the concepts discussed. Unfortunately, I had to cut out a bit early to make it back for a client meeting, but it was great to spend most of the day at the session and workshop. We also all went out for some tasty Chinese food for lunch ...
Some of my favorite sessions over the past few days have been Von Glitschka’s illustrator/photoshop session and hearing about the evolution of a brand with the Toki Doki founder. All in all, this has been a great experience and really helps focus my energy for the coming year ...
