Nomad Chique: Visual Experience Design

In my recent travels to Southeast Asia this summer, I realized, while walking through the Suvarnabhumi Airport (Bangkok), that the airport is a great example of the user experience. Read on to find out why.

As a user experience designer I always like to do new-fangled things and go to novel places to keep my experiences fresh, which translates to more creative and innovative designs in my work. Next stop Mindshare LA. Check out the sharing of minds that took place at this event.

Here’s a short video on how to install a new theme on WordPress.

Last Saturday, I participated at another excellent iPhone/iPad huddle, the Hello Universe Seminar, hosted at Co-Working Fullerton by Rutger Hensel. It was a 1-day meetup to learn, share and connect – specifically, it was geared toward developers, product & graphic designers, UI designers, UX designers, business strategists, legal counsel, and current & future iPhone/iPad entrepreneurs. Check out what happened!

Some of my clients have been asking questions about how to do certain things in Wordpress so I figured this would be a good opportunity to start creating some simple 2 minute Wordpress how-to videos or Wordpress tutorial videos.

Clicking to donate is a very easy and cheap way to help. Your clicks provide food for the hungry, shelter for the abandoned and abused, conservation for the environment, aide for animal cruelty, money for the poverty stricken, medicine and vaccination for those with very little access, and education for children as well as adults.

Many fellow designers I’ve met are in one of two camps – “pixel-perfectors” or “vector virtusos”. Here’s 5 Tools that I recommend if you’re struggling with the switch from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe Photoshop.

I’ve been on the road these past few days, with full gear in tow and I remembered something I heard about at CES last week that I really wish I had right now (and on all my other treks) – wireless electricity. Check out this video demo. Available starting Q2 2010 from Wipower.

I found this helpful video on how to take homemade DVD video and convert it so it can be used on a website or somewhere like YouTube. Good guidelines on what settings to use on some kind of freeware, like Handbrake. I’m going to test this out this week.

Today I finally got to view Michael Jackson’s This Is It before it leaves theaters. It just made me admire his creative talent even more and of course saddened me again that he was lost to his fans too soon. When I got home, I decided to read more about the latest and found this [...]