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.

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!

When you put a bunch of really talented strangers into a space for 2 days, you can come out with some pretty amazing things. Last weekend, I went to the first annual camp here in the So-Cal area, stemmed from the mothership camp in the Bay Area. The camp was a way for web developers, UX professionals including UX designers to get together and share and explore the new realm of the iPad.

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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.