design

HCI 2008, Culture, Creativity, Interaction

HCI researchers, students and practitioners are invited to HCI 2008 to be hosted by Liverpool John Moores University, UK, next September (1st - 5th). Submissions are now open for the remaining categories . HCI 2008 is the 22nd running of the British HCI conference; one of Europe's largest and longest running HCI conferences.

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Date: 1 September 2008
Location: Holiday Inn, Liverpool City Centre, UK

Information graphics

I was pleased to hear that The Guardian’s graphics team have won a clutch of medals at this years Malofiej Infographics Awards – awards dedicated to communication graphics in newspapaers, magazines and the internet.

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20 March 2008 by Nikki Barton

Useful design tools

OK, so I know I was going to talk about the future of online font display this week, but I’ve changed my mind. I got kind of sidelined playing around with Typetester, so I’m going to talk about really useful tools for design development.

Typetester is an online application for comparing fonts for on-screen use. It handily puts fonts into three different groups:
• safe list
• Win default
• Mac default

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22 February 2008 by Nikki Barton

Beers & Innovation 13: Developers & Designers

Designers & Developers are starting to inhabit each other's spaces in the production process and sharing responsibilities. How can we work best in this new world?

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Date: 12 February 2008
Location: CC Club, UK

Bulletproof Ajax Brighton Workshop

Learn the power of the XMLHttpRequest object and how it can be used to add advanced interactivity to your website.

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Date: 25 January 2008
Location: UK

CSS Mastery Brighton Workshop

This day-long course will provide the essential skills required to take your CSS to the next level...

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Date: 24 January 2008
Location: UK

Masterclass in User-Centred Design

Receive a basic grounding in techniques such as ethnography, lead users, personas, scenarios, prototyping and evaluation.

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Date: 29 November 2007
Location: Møller Centre, UK

Masterclass in User-Centred Design

Date: 
29 Nov 2007 - 09:00
Event Website: 
http://www.instrata.co.uk/index.htm
Venue
Cambridge

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30 October 2007 by Deirdre Molloy

FlashBrighton's Big Day Out

A free event with food, drinks and talented designers and developer, it will cover the recent releases of Adobe Flex, Adobe Integrated Runtime and ActionScript 3

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Date: 24 November 2007
Location: Royal Albion Hotel, UK

Squishing Design Ping Pong

I love email. Well, I say love, what I actually mean is that it's my primary form of communication at work. Email can be great, especially if its well-crafted, but beware of what you send. Sometimes it can go badly wrong.

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25 August 2007 by Sam Michel