By Kimberly Reyes (@CommDuCoeur)

Northern California’s Silicon Valley is the beating heart of our industry.  Ever since Stanford University planted its high-tech seeds in the San Francisco Bay area at the beginning of the last century, we saw a fast and furious growth in technological innovation that forever changed the way we live.

And while innovation has since spread its roots to other parts of the country and even the world, the spirit of Silicon Valley carries on, with the passion and ambition that only comes from dedicated computer nerds and friends with deep pockets.  Here are our top five Silicon Valley ones to watch. Read More-->

Sculpture by Donald Judd

By Dan Licht (@thedvl)

Barebones, simple, exclusive. These are all words that spring to mind when thinking of minimal design. Minimalism has been around for quite some time. The ability to use just what is needed and nothing more. It’s no wonder that it has been highly utilized in interactive design. After all, the requirements of designing for the web have always been built on a foundation of limits. Back in the ’90s we were restricted to only 216 colors and minuscule file sizes. But minimal interactive design is alive and well. Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

This week, Zemoga’s talking gadgets: our all-time favorites, cutting-edge innovations, and even ones that haven’t been invented…yet.  Today, we’re getting blast from the past with some gadget nostalgia!

By Briana Campbell (@MsMatchgirl)

It’s 1988, you’re sitting in a movie theater with a couple of girlfriends, eating Twizzlers and drinking a diet cola.  And before you, on screen, sweet Lloyd Dobbler (John Cusack) is holding a boom box high above his head, Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” blaring, trying to win back his love, Diane Cort (Ione Skye).  It’s an iconic scene.  It’s one this girl has thought (ok, dreamt) a lot about over the years.  And it’s dated.

I mean, really?  A boom box?  What would an 18 year old, love struck teenager use today?  Holding an iPod docking station above your head doesn’t quite have the same affect, does it? Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

Why do textbooks still exist?

Mid-September means everyone is back at school already.  And that got me thinking about a few things. Remember the fuss a couple of years ago when Georgia College gave all their incoming students an iPod? It was one of those big stories that captured the public imagination since it illustrated just how dramatically the learning experience was about to be changed by technology. Flash forward to the present and we haven’t progressed as far as we might like. But the tools are certainly out there to do so. Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

Are you tired of saving information for the web in your computer and organizing it? Even if you work with Delicious or any bookmark application, can you never find what your looking for?
Maybe you are the type of person who has a  photographic memory. If that is the case we definitely envy you.

The use of a box is related Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

If you work in Information Architecture you will love this video

On Adobe.tv you can see a 1 hour video explaining the features and how to use an upcoming Prototyping tool called Flash Catalyst (known as Thermo), an excellent option to explore on Interaction Design with high quality functional prototypes.

Check out the video here.>

So what happens when you work in an office, with a computer?Then you leave work and go to dinner at a restaurant. Afterwards you go home. Now imagine that you don’t want to lug all your work stuff with you to dinner and then you don’t want to lug all the wine bottles from dinner home. What are you to do? Evernote! This site/desktop app/iphone app/browser plugin allows you to do just what its website promises; “Remember Everything.” Read More-->>

I know that some developers our there use the Hope methodology, some might use the Pray methodology, but those don’t really work for real, mission critical, high volume applications like the ones we build.

So we went on a search for the kind of methodology that would facilitate fast, iterative, user centric application development. Most traditional methodologies are very “Waterfall” oriented (i.e. Read More-->>

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As mentioned in a past post entitled “What is Information Architecture?”, one of our goals is to organize the features or requirements requested by the client in a logical structure. This allows the Dev team to understand the hierarchy and flow of contents and functionalities of the project. Read More-->.