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One Day's Wages is a new movement of people, stories, and actions to alleviate extreme global poverty. ODW is you, me, us, them: giving, dreaming, and working together.
We might not be rock stars, billionaires, or famous movie stars, but we want to remind everyone that they can make a dramatic and global impact - even by donating their "one day's wages" - which is approximately 0.4% of one's annual salary.
Visit our website to learn how you can start your own personal campaign via Birthday, Work, and Idea for a cause.
Here's our pledge:
1) 100% of your donations (minus transaction costs) go directly to projects.
2) You decide and choose where to invest your donations and campaigns.
3) Complete transparency.
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How women are persuaded into self-loathing through marketing.
Certain foods, like meat and cheese, suck up so many resources regardless of where they're produced (a pound of conventional grain-fed beef requires nearly a gallon of fuel and 5,169 gallons of water) that you can shrink your footprint far more by changing what you eat, rather than where the food came from. According to a 2008 report from Carnegie Mellon University, going meat- and dairyless one day a week is more environmentally beneficial than eating locally every single day.
I am pleased this year I will serve with Josh Damon-Williams as local San Francisco IxDA Leader.
Visit ixdasf.org. We will focus on Continuing Education, Mentorship and Community amongst the design community that is local to SF. Life long learning and sharing for like minded design professionals.
a Recap of 2008 and a wish for brighter, happier 2009
2008 Recap from aynne on Vimeo.
We are still at war..
2003-2008 and probably 2009
last time I checked this morning this debacle we are in cost $614,930,846,568
Please don't forget...
We have so much work to do change this course of history and right the wrongs of our country.
Go with the Flow
Flow is how and where the page or thing you are making fits in the overall scheme of things.
Use reality-based design
Make sure to include all of the features that the page will use in your designs. Make sure they fit on the page and are in the right place.
Have a beginning and an end
Always comp the page before and the page after the one you are making. Make sure you know where it lives in the site or the experience.
Avoid dead-ends
Make sure the user has an out. Don’t trap someone into doing something without providing a way to get out of it. For example pop-up windows should have close buttons, navigation should lead back to home, etc.
Process
Interactions designers can help teams avoiding high-frustration scenarios by working to come up with the right flow. It’s important to work with user experience folks before the design is done and before anything gets shown to the client.
Surface vs. structure
Interaction designers can help with the essentials. What is the experience supposed to do? What is the result? How does it work?
Make an accurate representation of the desired finished product.
Details, Details…
At the individual page level. Its important to get all the details right. This is the map developers will be using to make the designs come to life so make sure they are accurate.
Some tips:
- Group buttons logically if you get confused check out Yahoo’s pattern library
- Don’t use Loren ipsum, put real content in when you can to make sure it will fit and look the way you envisioned.
- Don’t skip the navigation – if there are more pages make sure you account for how one will paginate or navigate through the site
- Don’t forget rollovers, tool tips and other button states. They need visual design love too.
Was a great success!!!!
See more photos on Flickr
The first event I ring-mastered under my new duties on the volunteer events committee (not sure what my title is) for the IxDA * (Interaction Design Association) is tonight .
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1175013/
We will be discussing Natural User Interface and see a bunch of exciting work from Stimulant.io on wall touch screen, gestural and haptic interface. I am excited to meet Nathan and David in person. The friendly folks at 24-7 Talent have graciously sponsored the event - You rock Hilary and Kate.
It takes a village to make these things happen and I love my people for stepping up and helping me. I get by with a little help from my friends:
The event will be at the boys snazzy new office: thank you Ericson, Aubrey, Cole and Rey's at 360 Ritch.
DJ Jeremy will be spinning some Interaction Designer friendly stuff.
The lovely Ms Jen Bailey has graced us with her catering skills
- thank you in advance. I love you all.
When I last checked we had 158 RSVP's not including my Facebook invite!!!! This event is going to rock!
* IxDA is: The Interaction Design Association is a member-supported organization committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community. Interaction Design (IxD) is the branch of user experience design that defines the structure and behavior of interactive products and services.
Contrary to how that all sounds, it is actually a very cool group of people. We are professionals, thinkers, writers and artists but I have been to the conferences and events many times and know we also know how to party.
Today is the Autumnal Equinox. The day marking the arrival of Fall.
It also is the first day of Libra. When the fruits of the harvest of the year come in to be weighed and measured.
The time when we see what we have, discard what we don't need, enjoy the things that won't last and consider what we will need to get us through the upcoming winter.
"The population 85 and older is projected to more than triple by 2050, to 19 million." US Census
I have observed that Dolores Park is segmented into several distinct and (sub) culturally consistent sections.
A. Hipster Hill
The Northeast corner of the Park (Dolores and 17th) is the realm of the Hipster. I suspect this is because while they can manage the walk from Valencia to Dolores they are too hung-over to make it up the hill.
Do bring: Bike, Enormous Sunglasses, Skinny jeans that show your butt crack when you sit down, Wear black and more black something army-looking works too, Ipods, beer and small speakers are encouraged.
Tips: Sit directly on grass look bored.
B. Jock Corner
Weekend warriors, dodge ball players, soccer fans, etc…
Do bring: Spandex, knee pads and some sort of ball to chase around.
Tips: be excessively perky and organized.
C. Latin American Club
The locals. Watching the scene and laughing.
Do Bring: Beer, your homies, a dog
D. Scary bathrooms
I have only had the pleasure once, but I heard nothing good happens in this place.
Do bring: protection, toilet paper, a sense of balance and humor
E. Gay cruising + Sunbathing section
Bring: a towel, a conversation starting small dog
leave at home: your boyfriend or life partner
F. Kids and picnickers
bring: diapers
G. Geek Section
This seems to be the spot wear the digirati hangs out
Bring: Food to share and your best portable devices
H. Hipster overflow and family outing section
I. Scary drunks and Hobo section
Bring: Bags full of bottles for recycling, Old English or Night Train.
This is an oldie but a goodie from a now moth-balled blog I used to keep.
I presented some work at the IXDA (Interaction Design Association) for an event called VizFarm that was held at IDEO's office in San Francisco.
The event's focus was data visualization. It was a pleasure to share the spotlight with talented interaction designers in the area.
The deck:
48 Hour Plug from aynne on Vimeo.
Writing in the Minimalist style
Some writing tips gleaned from Chuck Palahniuk’s talk.
1. Read your work aloud
2. Don’t give it up – make the emotion happen in the readers mind
Devices to use:
- Gesture
- Dialogue
- Running narrative of factual stuff
All of these are effective at conveying the characters state of mind and convey the authority of your character.
If you can get your reader to believe the little factual things, you will get then to believe a big lie.
3. Keep things unresolved
4. Ask more questions than you give answers
5. Rope other people into your writing and your projects – they can help you stick to it
6. Start with stories no more than 6-7 pages. Be concise.
7. Use your writing as an excuse to do reach and be with people and collect their stories
8. Have a great life through writing – make every story a scrapbook
9. Give up on the goal of being liked – instead strive for making and impression and being memorable
10. Portray a state of mind – don’t be explicit in state of mind
11. Don’t use “is” or “has” – its too passive – write aggressive
12. Use your short stories as figure studies for larger stories
Radio-waves burn salt water. Fascinating to see where this research will lead.
Todays something to love is the conceptual art project. The Thing. Artists will send a thing to your home. This thing will incorporate text and based on the artists participating (one of my favorite artists Miranda July is the first in the queue) The Thing Quarterly seems like a smashing idea.
Bravo!
“If I had shown up dressed like a Ninja Turtle no one would care or notice either”
I am kind of tired of nonchalantness.
Everyone has to act like they don’t care or notice anything.
If you see someone pass out on the street one simply walk over them
If someone pulls out a gun and waves it around one gives a bored look
If there is a man dressed in a silver-spangled cat suit and combat books one might yawn and think about grabbing a bite to eat
I do it too, I confess.
I am nonchalant but since I was raised (more or less) here (and LA) one just is trained to be nonchalant.
You can comment on bills facing the senate?
I encourage everyone to support Assembly Bill 1634.. Which would require most dogs and cats in California to be spayed or neutered.
Keeping the population of cats and dogs low is the first step in eliminating the need for the murder of countless innocent animals in shelters every year.
So - please for the sake of the animals - support this bill.
