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Clean Illustrator FXG Files

garthdb — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:18:58 +0000

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 the file; I figured someone else might find it useful.

(ai:|ATE:|flm:|d:)(\w*)(=")([^"]*)(")( )?

12 Heuristics of UX

garthdb — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:00:11 +0000

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 as far as user experience is concerned.

Here is the list:

Response
Metaphor
Navigation
Consistency
Training
Efficiency
Design
Prevention
Recovery
Help
Emotion
Anthropomorphism

I’m working up a more in-depth exploration and will post it soon.

Designing for Mobile

garthdb — Mon, 02 May 2011 02:03:11 +0000

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 (pdf)