Nomad Chique: Visual Experience Design

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 [...]

Recently the documentary film “Food Inc.” came out on DVD and I finally was able to watch it today. It’s ironic that I’ve also recently been working on a logo design for new client, a cook in fact, with deep roots in the farm way of life. In my research of what’s out in the [...]

Today I was reading an article WebsiteMagazine.com about “Linkbait” and found this great little section on Hooks. As a designer, I often turn to (and highly recommend) professional writers to do the master work of creating great content for sites I create. Writers know how to be economical yet super engaging in how they say [...]

It took me a couple weeks to come up for air to recap, but I finally got a chance to write today. I learned a lot and found several usefully new tools and resources. Here’s the highlights!
1. Camera Raw Rocks My World.
I vow to never again edit my photos as just straight JPEGs…unless I [...]

I was just looking for an example of this neat-o effect in Flex that I really like, found on VerySimple’s blog. Thought I’d post here because it’s a great sample, plus, comes complete with code! Gotta love that.
http://www.verysimple.com/flex/flipcard/

I guess I live under a rock. At Max this week, people were talking about Google Wave, debuted at the Google I/O conference earlier in the year. It’s still in preview but looks interesting. It’s like IM, email, social networking all in one big thing.
WARNING: This video is REALLY LONG.
Grab some coffee…and maybe some donuts [...]

In honor of football day at the Lee household, thanks to my husband Minh.
I must find out who the art director is