DrewChristiano

Pharma & Mobile Learning - There’s Nothing Innovative About This

Yesterday afternoon a coworker asked if I had time to jump on a project he was working on with a tight deadline. Since most of what I was working on wasn’t time sensitive I obliged, asking what he needed me to do. He explained that a development partner of ours was creating an electronic learning module for a new drug one of their Pharma clients was releasing, and that mid-way through development the clients revealed that they were expecting the module would be mobile-ready; to this point it was being developed completely in Flash.

UI: Thoughts on the New Facebook Timeline Design

An analytical look at Facebook’s new Timeline feature, from a UI/UX perspective.

Tags: ui/ux Facebook Timeline Desi

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It always seems impossible until it is done.

— Nelson Mandela

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While the level of professionalism and complexity in the web design industry has grown at a rapid rate, client budgets haven’t kept pace. As such, cost cutting has become the norm. Most agencies just don’t have enough time and budget to do things well, so are forced by their clients to cut corners. This is especially true when the vast majority of pitches are decided on budgetary and deadline related terms. So agencies offer their clients watered down service and then get blamed when what they deliver doesn’t match expectations.

— Andy Budd [clearleft.com]

Tags: web design clients budget cost-cutting expectations

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If youth knew; if age could.

— Henri Estienne (French Editor, Writer, Scholar and Printer, 1528-1598)

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siulong:

We spend all our lives working so that we can amass stuff. We buy these things with our time (let’s face it, it’s our time we’re selling to the dollar) and then we spend more time devouring it. When we run out of room for this stuff we look for ways to buy a bigger house with bigger rooms to contain it all. In the end we’ve traded all of our time for stuff.

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America is the world’s laboratory,” says Genesis partner Graham Button. “We’re brilliant at prototyping, but there is always the rush to get to market to make money, leaving the market to complete the design process. Market forces don’t design well: Stupid things get bolted on; important things get shaved off.

— Graham Button

Tags: america design

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You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future… You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

— Steve Jobs (via siulong)

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Tags: visionary creativity leader Steve Jobs

Work.

It’s not hard to tell when I’m busy at work… my social media participation drops off significantly.

Redemption, Thy Name is Facebook

Of course the day after I published a critical analysis of Facebook, and claim that they’ve lost their way and are dangerously close to becoming an unintuitive, convoluted mess, they go and introduce the timeline feature… and completely redeem themselves!

Tags: facebook timeline dumb and dumber

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General Assembly – Bringing Collaboration and Learning to the Workplace

Check out the source to look at the other photos showcasing a fantastic communal workspace.

Earlier this year, General Assembly opened it’s doors attempting to try something new; building a working environment for multiple companies that inspired collaboration, education, and driven by a passion for entrepreneurship.

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Tags: workspace collaboration workplace office

Has Facebook Lost Its Way?

With its latest iteration, Facebook has once again kicked the volatile beehive of over 750 million users with a significant redesign to it’s homepage (I suppose one could argue that Facebook’s recent roll-out of it’s new homepage is more of an update than a redesign, but to me it seems considerable enough to be considered the latter.). I’ll start by saying I’m aware of the inevitable tradition of Facebook making an update, and its users immediately becoming outraged; however, this marks the first time that not only do I believe their outrage is warranted, but join them in feeling, well, disappointed (“outrage” is a ridiculous word to use… it’s only a website, after all).

Wandering Keystrokes

What started as a post analyzing the new Facebook and Pandora redesigns has turned into an analysis of Facebook’s successes and pitfalls. Oh well, one can’t restrict the mind during a period of cogent lucidity.

Stay tuned for “The Facebook/Pandora Redesign Showdown - Part One: Facebook”…

Tags: Facebook Pandora redesign analysis lucidity

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