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I'm sure we're all familiar with Wacom, but I'm not sure if everyone realizes how HUGE and IMPORTANT they are. I mention this because Wacom is not just a company that produces the little tablets we see on people's desks. They provide THE tools of choice for the movie industry, television industry, vehicle companies and huge business to business entities. The little Wacom tablet and stylus I have at home and on my desk at work are not the main streams of income for this company. I wanted to clarify this because their Branding Statement reflects the ideals of a huge, worldwide, trend-setting company that is the leader in ALL of their product categories. Here is a link to their PDF download of their Branding Statement (you may have to cut and paste the URL below): https://dfsoyk1v2p32a.cloudfront.net/us/~/media/Files/PDFs/Our%20Business/Company_brochures_EN_20131225.pdf?vs=1&d=20131226T080604

Adobe's Project Mighty and Project Napoleon are cloud enabled hardware. They enable a designer to carry his style anywhere he can access Adobe's cloud. Mighty is the stylus. Napoleon is the "shape tool". The stylus, among other things, can create a Kuler color profile from your iPhone, then paste that profile onto your iPad. You can cut & paste across multiple devices. The future of design is giving designers the ability to create at the same professional quality while on the road as they do when there at their desks.

Justification for moving into web-based mockups

Again, neato. Thanks for sharing.

Style guides info with suggested tools

How fun. Thanks for sharing.

PLEASE READ THIS FOR TIS BRANDING PURPOSES: This Austin company took EIGHT MONTHS to create their logo. They had their branding and creative statements already completed. I will be e-mailing, a second time, to everyone the branding document I created for TIS. Aaron asked that everyone be prepared to talk about the TIS branding for the 13 March, Thursday, TIS staff meeting.

This is a Chrome extension that will resize your browser window to the break points in the code of the current site you are viewing. Those sites without breakpoints show a blank window in the extension. Responsive Inspector is helpful to see all of the breakpoints a particular site uses. Some have several breakpoints, other sites have just a few. It's a good learning tool. It's a wee bit buggy sometimes, but it's being updated regularly. If this link does not work, just search for "Responsive Inspector" in the Chrome browser Extensions.

This company was created by UT students. They use the Oculus to provide accessibility to Users.

It's a half humorous, half serious look at what design will be in the year 2033. Very insightful if you can read between the lines.

Emulates all desktop and mobile browsers.  Free trial.

should we compare this to crossbrowser (http://crossbrowsertesting.com/ -- password in stache) -- (looks better at first blush)

More justification for taking a hard look at content to start a responsive project.

More handy resources...

Some good points & good resources here. Lots of agreement with Hay, but some other suggestions, too.

Parts that stood out for me: "Over the last year, we've started explaining design as "the rendering of intent." The designer imagines an outcome and puts forth activities to make that outcome real." "It seems pretty clear to us that the Global Entry team had a typical intention of many government (and non-government) design teams: get the service up and running... In contrast, the We The People team wanted to showcase that a government design team can produce designs on par with the best non-government commercial teams." "Well, everyone who participates in the rendering of their intention is a designer, using this definition." "Many of our design deliverables, such as wireframes, prototypes, and style guides, are as much about getting agreement on what we intend as they are to move our intentions closer to done."

Brad Frost's notes and link to the Slideshare for Stephen Hay's Responsive Design Workflow talk

It's in French, but you can figure it out. This is called a Parallax Website (Google it). The parallax solution isn't for every site nor product. You wouldn't want to do a user's manual in parralax. But when it's done correctly the impact is meaningful and rich.

Very interesting read, especially for those of you that link devices.

If you think Windows 8 is just a change in GUI, you're already behind in the future of computing and GUI's. This article talks about the future of the computer and GUI's. Very interesting read.

Just like Maslow's hierarchy, this is a great example of how hardware, software, apps and services have developed and can be examined in our lives.

Some great ideas of things that would make digital calendars more useful.