EGO INC: Since 2001 http://www.egoinc.org/blog it really is all about me Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:57:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 State of the Web 11/6/09 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1124 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1124#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:57:16 +0000 corey http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1124
  • Why We Have an IMG tag
    http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/11/02/why-do-we-have-an-img-element
    1993 email thread conversation between Marc Andreessen, Tim Berners-Lee and others about the beginnings of HTML markup
  • Explaining UX Research to Clients
    http://www.alistapart.com/articles/can-you-say-that-in-english-explaining-ux-research-to-clients/
    Translation guide (including cheat-sheet) for speaking clientese
  • Twitter Lists are live
    http://mashable.com/2009/11/03/news-twitter-lists/
    Examples of New York Times, Huffington Post, etc usage.
    RT functionality coming soon
  • Giz Explains: Android, and How It Will Take Over the World
    http://gizmodo.com/5397215/giz-explains-android-and-how-it-will-take-over-the-world
    “And even if it takes Google 10 years to iron out Android’s faults and push this kind of adoption, you can expect Android, or its unofficial pseudonym “Google Phone,” to become a household name.”
    • ]]>     http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1124 0     State Of the Web 10/23/09 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1102 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1102#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:48:35 +0000 corey http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1102
  • eBenefits is live!
    http://www.ebenefits.va.gov
    The first release of the VA site that we (Ironworks) have been working on for the past 10 months went live this week! Lots more to come, but this has been an intensive project. I was responsible for the visual identity & branding, the visual design and the front-end development.
  • ADCMW’s Creative Elements Event Article
    http://fullbleed.adcmw.org/articles/creative-elements/
    Check out these handsome folks representing Ironworks and the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington
  • The Myth of Usability Testing
    http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-myth-of-usability-testing/
    A good usability professional must identify high-priority problems and make appropriate recommendations. But a good designer must also be able to design well in the first place. This is one area in which usability testing has the power to hone designers’ instincts without the cost of formal testing on every project.
  • New CNN design launching on Monday
    http://turner.tekgroup.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=4733
  • Google, Bing include Twitter results in SRP
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/that-didnt-take-long-twitter-is-coming-to-google/
    • ]]>     http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1102 0     State of the Web: 9/30/09 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1095 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1095#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:36:02 +0000 corey http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1095
  • 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/24/10-useful-usability-findings-and-guidelines/
    Form Labels Work Best Above The Field; Users Focus On Faces; Scrolling, etc; 27 char search box
  • Google: Experiments in Digital Creativity
    http://www.idsgn.org/posts/google-experiments-in-digital-creativity/
    interesting usages of the google APIs to create ’sites within’
    http://www.goollery.org/#recent/Google%20Me%20The%20Movie
    http://www.modernista.com/7/index.php
  • FCC introduces OpenInternet.gov
    http://www.openinternet.gov/index.html
  • Yale press drops Rand logo
    http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/art-news/2009/09/30/yale-press-drops-distinctive-logo/
  • Google Wave invites go out today to 100, 000 users
    http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html
  • CNN iPhone app puts rivals to shame
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/172780/cnns_new_iphone_app_puts_rivals_to_shame.html
    • ]]>     http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1095 0     State of the Web: 9/23/09 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1097 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1097#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:31:07 +0000 corey http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1097
  • TechArts – Oct 31st
    http://techarts.eventbrite.com/
    DC’s Creative and Technology communities – coming together for a first time in mass to meet, find collaborators and show off their skills.
  • Design At Facebook
    http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?879
    Today at their headquarters in Palo Alto, Facebook’s design team walked through their philosophy and approach to designing for a quarter billion users.
    • ]]>     http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1097 0     State of the Web: 9/16/09 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1090 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1090#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:27:38 +0000 corey http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1090
  • Extreme Makeover: Craigslist Edition:
    http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist_makeover
  • Smashing Mag 35 Wireframing Examples:
    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/01/35-excellent-wireframing-resources/
  • Zappos Guerilla Redesign:
    http://metalabdesign.com/zappos/
  • IW sponsors ADCMW Social Event (Oct 21)
  • Accessibility Camp Oct 10th:
    http://accessibilitycampdc.eventbrite.com/
  • 960px Layout grids for Axure and Pencil:
    http://www.userfocus.co.uk/resources/axure_grids.html
  • Googlelabs Fast Flip:
    http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/
  • Bing Visual Search:
    http://www.bing.com/visualsearch
    • ]]>     http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1090 0     State of the Web: 8/5/09 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1086 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1086#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:54:44 +0000 corey http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1086
  • The future of wireframes?: http://www.madebymany.co.uk/the-future-of-wireframes-00991
  • Do Not F#@& with Graphic Designers: http://www.idsgn.org/posts/making-sense-of-health-care/
  • SWSWi registration open
  • FullBleed submission request: http://fullbleed.adcmw.org
  • IDXA Interaction 10 – Feb 4-7 – Savannah, GA: http://interaction.ixda.org/program.php
  • Virb.com redesign: http://virb.com/
    • ]]>     http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1086 0     State of the Web: 7/30/09 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1083 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1083#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:07:39 +0000 corey http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1083 A week full of major redesigns!

    1. http://www.NPR.org redesign & Poynter article: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=167417
    2. Network Solutions rebranding & redesign preview: http://preview.networksolutions.com/
    3. Twitter homepage redesign & article: http://www.sampletheweb.com/2009/07/29/twitter-positions-itself-as-a-search-product-with-new-homepage/
    4. Steve Krug workshop Nov 10th DC: http://www.sensible.com/workshops.html Rocket Surgery Made Easy:The Do-It-Yourself Usability Testing Workshop
    5. Article: 10 Ways to Make Twitter a Useful Government Communication Channel: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/10-Ways-to-Make-Twitter-a-Useful-Government-Communication-Channel-355012/
      6. ]]> http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1083 0 Dusting it off http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1081 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1081#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:03:52 +0000 corey http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1081 I’m currently using Facebook and Twitter to connect with people and share the ever-important “what am i doing”. As with many others, my blog has become obsolete for sharing this personal information. I just started doing a weekly “State of the Web” segment at work, where I detail all the big happenings on the internet. I thought I would use this forum to also aggregate this content and to get back into the rhythm of writing.

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      Just love this photo from a fall festival a few weeks ago.

      ]]>       http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1077 1       darndest http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1076 http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1076#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:31:23 +0000 corey http://www.egoinc.org/blog/?p=1076 bedtime conversation with ryder last night:

      Reading ‘If You Give a Pig a Pancake’, the pig mentions at one point that she is homesick.

      Ryder: “I got homesick once”
      Me: “Oh yeah? When do you get homesick?”
      Ryder: “On the way back from the beach, I was carsick. Then we came home and I had some crackers and juice and I was homesick”

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