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Article | UX

What I learned at UX Bootcamp

14 Aug 2012

At the beginning of this month, I was fortunate enough to attend the Cooper UX Boot Camp. What is unique about this course is that Cooper partners with a non-profit to identify a need they have and, in turn, give the class a real-world problem to work towards resolving. In the end, teams may “compete” for the best idea, but everyone walks away with a clearer idea of the process and the chosen non-profit walks away with all of the ideas AND a donation in the name of the winning team.

Photo | Studio

Cooper UX Boot Camp - Annie spotted

8 Aug 2012

Cooper UX Boot Camp - Annie spotted

Our very own, Annie, was spotted in Cooper’s UX Boot Camp photo gallery. Looking forward to hearing what she learned and accomplished down in San Francisco last week.

Article | UX

"I think we are all in the business of just making things look beautiful."

8 Aug 2012

I interviewed Veronica Pisano, senior web designer at the Brooklyn design shop OrangeYouGlad, and one of my favorite people in the world. OYG is a small multi-disciplinary design studio that makes incredibly inspiring stuff for web and print.

Link | Misc

In Tennessee, iPads used for quick drivers’ licence renewals

25 Jul 2012

Check it out on Springwise

There’s an app for that

Article | Misc

"Always think about what you're doing, and learn as much as you can."

25 Jul 2012

I recently interviewed Thomas Fuchs, Ruby on Rails core alumnus, software developer, and author of new e-book, ‘Retinafy Your Web Sites and Apps.’ It’s a concise collection of tips, recommendations, and code snippets for web developers interested in preparing their sites for retina phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops of the present and future.

Video | Misc

AlphaClone on Bloomberg TV

24 Jul 2012

Our client, Mazin Jadallah, was on Bloomberg TV today to talk about his business, AlphaClone

Learn more about what we’ve built for AlphaClone.

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iPad Prototype

24 Jul 2012

The Original iPad Was Gigantic

For all the talk of a 7" iPad coming from the tech press, NetworkWorld found evidence of an early iPad prototype that was revealed during the Apple/Samsung court proceedings. This one is much bigger than the iPad we know today. With the plastic back, it almost looks like something Apple might come up with for the education market.

Via Daring Fireball

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Latency is the web's bottleneck

24 Jul 2012

Latency: The New Web Performance Bottleneck

In fact, upgrading from 5Mbps to 10Mbps results in a mere 5% improvement in page loading times! In other words, an average consumer in the US would not benefit much from upgrading their connection when it comes to browsing the web.

However, the latency graph tells an entirely different story. For every 20ms improvement in latency, we have a linear improvement in page loading times.

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The only ones

23 Jul 2012

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead

Article | Work

Creating Contiki's Mobile Site, Part 4: Implementation

23 Jul 2012

With the functional prototype and the design work in the can, we got the opportunity to start work on the front-end implementation for Contiki’s mobile website . Since we had a good dose of working with the jQuery mobile framework from the prototype, we were able to dive right in and get to work.