Monthly Archives: April 2012

Flickr galleries 27. Apr 2012 by Teresa

Martini night: Donna Spencer on card sorting

Donna Spencer from Maad Mob was our guest speaker at Martini Night this Tuesday.

With a few hours up her sleeve before her flight home, Donna taught us the basic principles of card sorting – setting up, running a card sort and some tips for analysing the results and turning it into a usable information architecture. Jill, Mike and Teresa got their hands dirty and did a quick card sorting exercise on the night too.

Donna gives us the low-down on some key principles

And off we go!

Tonight's spread

 

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Donna’s a freelance user experience designer who specialises in large, messy websites; and large, messy  business applications. She has written three books – on card sorting, web writing, and information architecture. In her spare times she runs UX Australia, an annual user experience conference.

 

Inspiring us 27. Apr 2012 by Ashley

tGIF: Dain Fagerholm

To accompany our regular tGIF this week, I thought I would do a post about the artist who created it, Dain Fagerholm. Not only are his illustrations beautiful, that faux-3D oscillating effect (or whatever it’s called) is spectacular. The GIF …

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Inspiring us 26. Apr 2012 by Ana

The Dumpster Project

Brooklyn-based collage artist Mac Premo was preparing to move from his longtime studio to a much smaller one. Instead of simply tossing most things in the bin, he decided to catalog each item and the memories associated with them. The …

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Flickr galleries 24. Apr 2012 by Teresa

Adobe CS6 launch

We had a great time at the launch of Adobe CS6 and Adobe Creative Cloud at Luxe studios last night. Adobe’s technical director demonstrated some of the key improvements for a handful of products and we also heard a few stories from an industry panel about how CS6 has helped enhance their creative practices.

We’re pretty excited about the new release and we’re definitely keen to get our mitts on an upgrade soon!

Creative sequining

The Wacom screen

Q&A with the creative panel

Inspiring us 20. Apr 2012 by Ashley

Just my type: Using your hands.

“Oh, that font? It’s handmade, bespoke, unique. You can’t get it.” Don’t you hate it when someone says that? And then you scoff, but secretly you’re really jealous. Yes? Great. Well, this brings handmade type to a whole new level. …

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News 20. Apr 2012 by Teresa

Snapparazzi: Crime scene

Feels like the kind of place where murders happen. Loving the orderly structure of the buildings verus the disarray of a construction site below. And what of the solo pedestrian making his way through the scene? Where do you think …

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Inspiring us 19. Apr 2012 by Ashley

Such dazzling leotards.

Stumbling along on one of my many internet adventures, I came across this. A vintage circus archive. I could say more, but I think you’d have more fun experiencing it yourself. The freak section is especially interesting (and mostly offensive). …

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