As a web designer I don’t have a ton of extra peripheral tools to plug into my Mac Book Pro. Just the usual effects – good headphones for a long day, external hard drive for all that extra data (think iTunes!) but for the last year or so I’ve been using a great tool for all of my design work, the Intous 4 Medium from Wacom. Wacom is the main offender in the tablet world, all they do is tablets and tablet accessories. They offer a full range of tablets with a wide range of prices starting with the Bamboo (less than $100 for the base model) series which is for casual use and ending with the monstrous Cintiq 21UX ($2000+ for the top model) which is a full backlit LCD monitor that you can draw directly on to. The Intous 4 series falls right in the middle of Cintiq and Bamboo and for me, it is perfect.
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Usabilla is a usability design application that us Vancouver web design students at Capilano University often use in the early stages of development. You can use the software for free, or you can pay which will unlock some extra features. The information gathered with Usabilla is extremely useful. I was able to get direct feedback from 14 people with in 1 day of posting the test. Under normal circumstances that would have cost me 14 conversations and a ton of time in carrying out each survey individually.
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It is a little known fact that Robot Salmon author D.O.G. ’s sister is big deal in the art world. Aside from heading up her own sculpture department at Yale University, Jessica Stockholder, ex-Vancouverite and U-Vic grad, has shown her work in countless European and North American countries over her three decade long art career. [...]
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As web design students we love it when we have the chance to actually sink our teeth into a project, and “design” a website to our hearts content. The Interactive Design program at Capilano University shares it’s home in the Arbutus building on campus with another well know design program, the 3 year IDEA program. We have always been curious about what goes on with all those design students plunked in-front of their iMacs all day and night in the IDEA studio. So we took the opportunity to meet a few of our neighbors and we even recorded it for you to watch.
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We here in the Interactive Design Program at Capilano U like to stay in the forefront of all things new and trendy. Hence our fervent worship of Twitter.
Twitter is a great web application that allows us to keep up with our friends and followers as well as all recent trending topics. I like to keep [...]
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Almost everyone takes part in some type of social network these days. Facebook, Twitter, LinkdIn, and MySpace often come to mind when anyone mentions social networking. All these social networks are basically ways to connect with friends or let people know what you are doing. Ultimately they allow you to maintain relationships, but you can’t [...]
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