Posted on | December 19, 2009 | No Comments
I’ve have recently installed the Firefox Accessibility Extension (version 1.5) by Jon Gunderson of the Illinois Center for Information Accessibility. It’s a fantastic tool that allows you to test the against the FAE and beta W3C accessibility rules. It’s a simple to use toolbar that enables reporting on navigation, text-based and embedded content, scripting and more. Should be a must have if you’re developing web sites but also if you manage your own web site and need to make it more accessible. Check it out on Mozilla.org.
Posted on | December 19, 2009 | No Comments
The headline this morning on the CBC follows, “Canada part of Copenhagen climate deal”. After reading the news I have to ask myself exactly what part is that? Read more
Posted on | December 16, 2009 | No Comments
Kuler by Adobe has been around for awhile. I just had to post it. One of things I’m challenged with as a designer is selecting colours schemes. I tend to often fall into the safety of tried and true colour combinations. Read more
Posted on | December 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
Here is a visually interesting way to navigation news, photos and video commentary from around the world. At a glance you can quickly see where things are happening.
Check it out for yourself by visiting the Washington Post.
Posted on | December 16, 2009 | No Comments
I love design. I love great design. And as an Information Architect I love how we can communicate using visuals instead of just words. Here’s an example from Michael Anderson who took a novel approach to his CV. Inspired me to do the same.
See posting on Fast Company web site.
Posted on | December 4, 2009 | No Comments
Recently there has been so much focus on social media. More and more people are tweeting, uploading their latest presentations, music or videos, creating fan pages and of course blogging. If you’re in business, you must be asking yourself what is the point of all this if you’re not seeing a difference to the bottom line? Read more
Posted on | December 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Have you come across something in your daily adventures that makes you go, “What the F@#K?! Who the hell designed this?”. Well, yesterday a parking machine was such a thing? Read more
Posted on | December 1, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve recently been engaged on the redesign of an Intranet for a non-profit healthcare organization. One of the stakeholders asked how could social media work for their staff. Intranets were started to help with internal collaboration, communication, and knowledge sharing. They also facilitate the dissemination of company policy, guidelines and business values. There is a definite home for social media applications with this kind of cross-pollination of information and conversation within a corporation. Read more