Category Archives: Content

New TypePad microblog service – Will this obviate Tumblr & Posterous?

By Clay Newton | Published: August 18, 2009

Just yesterday, I wad discussing with Jason Wehmhoener whether folks and businesses should focus on services such as WordPress and TypePad or defer to simpler alternatives such as Posterous and Tumblr. As of yesterday, TypePad includes a microblogging capability and new tiny-templates. This may be awesome.

Ruder Finn Intent Index

By Clay Newton | Published: August 11, 2009

A great inforgraphic for the results of the most recent Ruder Finn Intent Index. You have to click through and check out the native display, it's really quite sexy. About the index (emphasis mine): Ruder Finn's Intent Index is an ongoing online research study that provides a comprehensive analysis of the underlying motivations or reasons [...]

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Interesting IxD blog: Wireframes Magazine

By Clay Newton | Published: July 30, 2009

I'm constantly watching for resources to help people get introduced to interaction and user experience design. Recently, a friend of mine tweeted a link to Wireframes Magazine, which turns out to perfectly fit that bill. This site is full of very useful tips & tricks and has a great rundown on tools of the trade. They also have a pretty fancypants way of exposing all posts, while [...]

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Working on a project in WPF, started this little Stencil

By Clay Newton | Published: June 4, 2009

Here's a little Omnigraffle stencil project I started. My idea is to build out a nice little library of common controls that won't require custom development when using any of the standard WPF control libraries. Please post ideas & comments to the project page, here. If you want to check in project updates, please do!

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Interaction Design prototyping tools

By Clay Newton | Published: April 6, 2009

Need to build a prototype, but don't know what to use? There are many factors that will likely seem to influence that decision, but there is only ONE that matters: What is the prototype going to be used for? Some types of prototypes: Prototype as documentation Prototype as pitch Usability prototype Experimenting through prototyping Each [...]

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Looking forward to seeing this film

By Clay Newton | Published: September 5, 2008

Man on Wire looks absolutely amazing.

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Watching Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

By Clay Newton | Published: August 19, 2008

Very awesome.

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Great email from Saul Williams – What are you reading?

By Clay Newton | Published: August 11, 2008

Just got an email from Saul Williams, Your summer reading… What are your thoughts? Dear Friends, Although I cannot boast a lifetime of keeping my views to myself, I have seldom taken on the responsibility of trying to change someone (alright, maybe a few girlfriends, but you’ll never hold me to that). However, this year [...]

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Ben Ullman digests Kawasaki in CLT

By Clay Newton | Published: March 27, 2008

Innovation Equations From: budesigns, 1 day ago | View | Upload your own Some of my notes from Guy Kawasaki’s talk on The Art of Innovative Solutions, 3/24/2008 at Sonoma, Charlotte, NC, Sponsored by Network Solutions. SlideShare Link I especially like slide 11. Nice work, Ben.

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Flickr: The Commons

By Clay Newton | Published: January 23, 2008

Clerk in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, Inc., checking to see if the proper numbers of parts were received and placed in the proper bin, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in Ge, originally uploaded by The Library of Congress. Flickr’s The Commons is an [...]

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