Category Archives: Design

Clean Illustrator FXG Files

When saving Illustrator Files as FXG there is an option to “Save Illustrator Private Data”. Even with this option unchecked I find the resulting FXG file has more data in it I need for use in a Flex project. I have a quick regular expression to remove most of the unnecessary namespaces and data from [...]

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12 Heuristics of UX

I’ve been meaning to post these awhile ago, but I did a session back at 360|Flex 2010 DC and I included a list of 12 Heuristics for UX. To be completely honest, they are influenced by Jakob Nielsen’s Ten Usability Heuristics, but I don’t really like his angle or implementation and they are definitely lacking [...]

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Designing for Mobile

Just finished up my session at Flash Camp on Designing for Mobile. For the fun of trying something new I built the deck with Showoff, taking the recommendation from Sim.  It’s not as feature rich as Powerpoint/Keynote, but it is fun to play with. I also posted the deck to github. Designing for Mobile Deck [...]

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