October 29, 2005

What Clients want

HOWdesign.com - Doing Business - This is a great summary of what clients want. I might intergrate it in a workshops for next year.

The summary is
1. Keep the principal involved
2. Communicate eg tell the client what is happening
3. Be easy to work with
4. Exceed expecations
5. Keep your promise
6. Anticiapte their needs
7. Build a seasoned team
8. Do good work
9. Hold their hand
10. Meet their goals

Posted by robin at 11:02 AM

BlinkX

blinkx A search system for the video and audio files. This is the sort of thing we I need for searching my videocasts.

Posted by robin at 10:45 AM

October 27, 2005

Mobile phone object tagging

Active Print : Home what looks like a free application that allows bar codes to be generated that then direct uses phones to url etc.

Posted by robin at 08:25 PM

toolkit for pda development with sensors

Mobile Bristol

Posted by robin at 08:18 PM

October 23, 2005

Two Stories: Supporting project based learning in multimedia design

This a screen recording of a presentation I gave in October 2005 at a showcase on learning design. It basically two stories that hopefully communicate what my teaching practice at this stage is all about. It includes a couple of diagrams that are summaries about the learning design, these diagrams are based on Ron Olivers model of learning design.

It's at http://www.archive.org/download/
RobinPetterdTwoStoriesprojectbasedlearninginmultimediadesignn/05learningdesign.mov
(14mb file that doesn't stream) Running time around 14 minutes.

Posted by robin at 08:05 PM

October 22, 2005

October 21, 2005

Will the browser apply the rule

centricle : css filters (css hacks) - Really great summary of what browsers support, what CSS rules.

Posted by robin at 08:28 AM

October 20, 2005

Mobile video

Now Playing on a Tiny Screen - New York Times An article about the making of series for tiny screens. Talks about some the actual problems, eg closers and bad sound. Maybe I should expand the 1st project I do with the 1st years to be more just screen design for small screens eg for PDA, ipods and phones.

Posted by robin at 05:38 PM

Example of site developed using mambo

http://ljuik.ru/index.php - well it's all in Russian !!! but it's a great example of who sites designed with CMS don't all have to look the same.

Posted by robin at 02:24 PM

October 18, 2005

Web client survey

Web client survey - this looks good. I think next year instead of giving the project templates to the students, we might development as part of a workshop.


Posted by robin at 08:52 PM

October 12, 2005

Notes on Preloading .swf in the background


Well this is one of those things that should have taken a less time to figure out than what it.

Two files one called start.swf and one called 1.swf

Start loading the 1.swf with with the line

loadMovieNum("1.swf", 1);

This loads into level 1. To make life easy the first frame of 1.swf needs to be blank !!! (this is where I was going wrong) . That first frame also has a stop action.

One the last frame of start.swf trigger the playback of 1.swf with the line

_level1.gotoAndPlay(2);

!!!!

Posted by robin at 02:34 PM

October 10, 2005

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - interest that the bad use of flash is still high on Nielson list of mistakes, and bad use of type.

Posted by robin at 06:45 AM

October 09, 2005

Design Cast

Design Cast is a project I've been working on with a student (Sam Johnston). It's finally ready to be released !!!!!. It's aims to publish audio content and interviews about design and design processes.

Posted by robin at 04:16 PM

October 03, 2005

Design Thinking

I need to get back to these and take some notes.

Vol. 2: design-management.de » Swarms, Pipelines, Design Thinking and Heraclitus

How to Save the World


Posted by robin at 07:27 AM

October 01, 2005

Notes on the Fireworks to Flash Workflow.

It all about the layers !!!!

- In Fireworks set up the overstate to be on a different layer.
- Export as .swf
- In Flash import this over ,
- Make the layer that will be button into a symbol copy and paste the rollover layer stated into the over state of the button.

Posted by robin at 03:02 PM