Shoutout to Tim Jaeger for sending this out today. If you’re looking for the FB styling to use in IFramed apps within Facebook, you can use Fbootstrapp to get the look and feel with very little effort on your part. Check it out, great resource: http://ckrack.github.com/fbootstrapp/
The day was coming for a while now, and it’s finally here, Steve Jobs is stepping down as CEO and Tim Cook the COO will take over. Looks like stocks took a bit of a hit as the news came out. Hopefully Apple won’t go the path of Microsoft after Bill Gates stepped away, but we really won’t know until he’s completely done with Apple. Steve will still be there as the Chairman of the Board so I’m sure his very necessary input will be taken
Here’s the link to the text from his resignation letter:
Researchers from from the Grenoble Informatics Lab in France are using the camera to track your eye gaze and change the image displayed on the tablet based on your perspective.
Ran into this site today when I was looking for a flash player that could switch and play the video in HTML5 if the browser didn’t handle flash. While on the site, they have a bunch of JQuery tools that you can download for free with plenty of demos and full code explanations. Amazing resource which will be part of the LW toolbox
“Understanding jQuery Tools
jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user interface components for the web. These are tabs, accordions, tooltips, overlays, exposing effects and scrollables. They can dramatically improve the usability and responsiveness of your site. They mainly focus on presenting information and visual appeal. After all, this is exactly what most websites desperately want: to present their content to the reader in an easy and visually pleasing manner.
Other JavaScript UI libraries focus on desktop-like features such as drag-and-drop, ranges, sortable tables or draggable windows. They are meant to build “rich internet applications” (RIAs) such as email clients, task managers, CRM software, image organizers or feed viewers. These kinds of applications are very useful within a small group or when used in intranets; however, normal websites are very different in nature. Their purpose is to look good and present information. jQuery Tools are built exactly for that purpose.”
The Challenge Family owned and operated, West Coast Subs brings the fresh, surf style of California to Toms River, NJ. Residing next to the family’s fashion boutique, The Cali Way (http://thecaliway.com), the owners of West Coast Subs needed to focus their efforts on quickly opening two storefronts. They contacted Local Wisdom to design and develop a site boasting West Coast Subs’ fresh and healthy ingredients along with its Cali flair. Before beginning we sampled the food, and they are accurate; the food is great.
Design Renowned for its surfing aficionados and health conscious residents, California is the true inspiration behind West Coast Subs. Our design experts were able to create a surf-style aesthetic that complements the shop’s healthy and fresh menu, while highlighting the owner’s passion for the ocean and all things surfing. We built the site using Jquery to provide users with a fun and compelling interface.
Development Without sacrificing design quality, we were able to develop a site for West Coast Subs, which would deploy in two stages. We shared in the company’s urgency to have a web presence, deploying the first stage of the site to showcase their menu. This put West Coast Subs on the map allowing the site to begin impacting search results, maximizing its customer potential. Next, we tackled the full spectrum, rounding out the full content migration along with design nuances which speak to the shop’s surf-style atmosphere.
How did it go Being nimble for a customer is core to our philosophy. We were able to share in the client’s urgency and launch the menu stage of WestCoastSubs.com within two weeks then complete the development of the larger site. The rapid deployment, professional design, and local buzz exceeded the client’s expectations.
Plethora is a great source of personally curated design and art work spanning a series of disciplines. Although the best inspiration comes from the real world, this iPhone app is a great free place to see aggregated work for: web & interactive, graphic design, branding, art, illustration, photography, product and industrial design, interior design, and architecture.
James Chudley of Smashing Magazine posted a great article on How to Use Photos to Sell More Online. Its a lengthy article with great photo examples. The article was written for products, but I believe these can be put to use no matter what you are doing online. Most importantly, we don’t want to put up a photo just to put up a photo… make it do something for you like:
Show off product benefits
Don’t give reasons not to buy
Create an immersive experience
Make ‘em laugh
Educate and inform
Tell a story
Highlight your innovation
Show people doing something
Don’t mislead users
Evoke an emotional response
Plug accessories
Show features and versatility
Understand needs
Match imagery to the brand
Sell a lifestyle
Demonstrate exciting features
Make it beautiful
Avoid cliche stock shots
Create desire
Be stylistically consistent
Convey the itangibles
Show some personality
Be subtle sometimes
Look professional
Be consistent
Use unusual vantage points
Shoot from the best angles
Show objects in their natural evironment
Convey a sense of scale
Image size is important
Show the product in use
Shoe how it works
Make choosing easy
Enhance the experience
Show details
Show me what it looks like
Encourage interaction
Show me I’m in the right place
We curate quite a few websites where we manage the use of photography. We work hard not to “slap on a photo”, but make it have some meaning and usefulness in the grand scheme of the website. Read the full article.
You can see it browsing to YouTube and playing a movie using Flash (this much iPad can do), you can see the keyboard (the “keys” look a bit smaller than the iPad), other than that, I couldn’t tell what some of the other UI’s were about. Keep in mind, this is still a prototype.
