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Written by David Charney
Posted: December 16, 2009 (2 years, 1 month ago) | 0 comments
Creative evenings indoors are great in the winter (You people without snow can participate as well). Get out your crayons, pencils, pens, paints, Prismas, charcoal, or clay and get creative. We can’t let kids have all the fun!
Update: Miss Keil reminded me that oils, pastels, water colors, water color pencils, colored pencils, chalk pastels, and acrylics are all great too. Another friend of mine’s brother in law is an ice sculptor and many of my friends are 3d and animation experts… I can’t leave them out either. What other mediums am I missing?
Written by David Charney
Posted: May 8, 2009 (2 years, 9 months ago) | 1 comment
I just got back from RIApalooza 2 (and felt the need to drink around seven liters of Mountain Dew). There were 100+ people who attended and ranged from Silverlight, Flash, and Flex developers to UI/UX designers (and everyone in between).
The speakers were UX evangeilsts, platform evangelists, evangelist evangelists, consultants, and developers, who came from Adobe, Microsoft (Alphabetical order on the first two - no favorites), Clarity Consulting, Digital Primates, Magenic, The Iona Group, and Roundarch. Their ideas, theories, and best practices were all very different but they all had in common the desire to create better RIA today and in the future. Here is a list of what went on:
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Written by David Charney
Posted: May 6, 2009 (2 years, 9 months ago) | 0 comments
My company, Illumen Group, has just introduced a new blog called Illumenate. [www.illumengroup.com/illumenate]
Illumenate looks to advance new ideas, new technology, and best practices for learning, training, and marketing professionals.
Articles will be posted on educational/learning/training/marketing news, tips & tricks, theories, case studies, technologies, etc. We will have articles written by David Denz, Tony O’Dell, Chris Okamoto, myself, as well as by our advisers and subject matter experts.
Written by David Charney
Posted: April 17, 2009 (2 years, 9 months ago) | 0 comments
The snow is gone and it is time for that age old process of designers and developers stretching, unhinging themselves from their chairs, wiping the pixels from their eyes, and letting the sunlight actually hit their skin (SolvingDesign recommends a sunscreen of about SPF 90 until your skin understands sunlight). Here are a few events occurring soon in Chicago:
RIApalooza
Friday, May 8, 2009 (9am to 5pm) - Illinois Technology Association - Chicago, IL
http://www.riapalooza.com
RIApalooza promises a platform agnostic and “PowerPoint-Free” zone, which means we are going to forgo the boring marketing pitches in favor of talking technology. RIApalooza is about creating Rich Internet Applications; how to go about building them and what is being built.
Flash in the Can - FITC - Design & Technology Event
June 22-23, 2009 - Chicago, IL
http://www.fitc.ca/event_detail.cfm?festival_id=94
Now in its 3rd year, FITC Chicago is back with some of the most unique and engaging presenters from around the world. FITC Chicago is a blitz of presentations and abundant networking opportunities, its an event that will leave you inspired, energized and awed.
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Written by David Charney
Posted: March 24, 2009 (2 years, 10 months ago) | 0 comments
When starting a project, it is easy for us to gather up a shopping list of goals, wants, needs, and ideas. We may say “I want a chat room, a calendar, a blog, a forum, a product configurator and…” - you get the idea. In fact this list is great and all part of the discovery and defining process. The more information and ideas we can pull out of our heads, the better. But this is shopping list. It is a list of ingredients that don’t necessarily relate to each other. We buy ingredients to create a meal. There are a lot of ingredients we like but we must understand the that not all good ingredients can be put together to create a great meal. We choose ingredients that have their own unique flavors, textures, and colors, that intermingle to form the perfect tasting meal. This same idea can be applied within training, educational, and marketing applications. It is important that we not only define and develop the individual components, but how these components work together to form a comprehensive, cohesive experience. Continue Reading >>
