By Sven Larsen (@zemoga)

Sure, we love getting feedback from clients about what a great job we’re doing.  And sure, it’s totally rewarding when we get a pat on the pack from our peers.  But when you make the TIME Magazine List of the Top 50 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.

By Sven Larsen (@zemoga)

We conclude our ”Gadget Week” with a look at the future of devices and how new content for them will be developed. As we cast our eyes to the future, many are asking, “Will the iPad (or Apple in general) kill Flash?”

As iPad sales continue to rocket upwards and the enmity between Apple and Read More-->ole for Flash in that future?

by Kimberly Reyes (@CommDuCoeur)

Put your hands up and step away from the keyboard.  Now face the door and walk.

No, I’m not going to steal your computer; I’m just going to show you some really great examples of user experience design.

Okay, I see that I’ve lost you.

We both know that “user experience” refers the way a person interacts with a device or system.  We also know that user experience design entails assessing and creating architecture that facilitates positive user experiences.

Alright, so you know what user experience design is.  But do you know where it is? Read More-->ole for Flash in that future?

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By Alejandro Gomez (@zemogalejo)

How would you build a great product that responds to the rapidly changing needs of your customers and the market? Would you take your time, plan every detail meticulously and wait till all portions of the project were finished before you began testing? Or would you map out your goals, build individual parts of the project first, and constantly adapt your build to react to problems or changes in the environment that occurred while you were completing your development?

If you were a 14 year old kid impatiently waiting for a video to download, you would choose the second option. After all it’s the guiding principal behind BitTorrent. And surprisingly, if you were a best practices digital developer like Zemoga, you would choose the second option as well.

While perpetual Beta has become a commonly accepted practice in the digital world (think of how many years Google labeled Gmail with that status), the idea that projects wouldn’t be built as a wholly formed entity and then tested for quality and performance is a fairly new one. But as our industry has learned more about building products to ever tighter deadlines, an “agile process” has often been identified as the best practice for creating materials. Read More-->ole for Flash in that future?

By DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)

With April 3^rd rapidly approaching, the buzz throughout the publishing industry is all about the iPad and more specifically the iBooks store that launches with the device. Many are talking about the iPad being a “Kindle killer” since it offers so much more functionality than Amazon’s popular device.  And Apple is definitely using its position as a viable competitor to make life more difficult for Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ team have already had major showdowns on pricing with Macmillan and it looks like there will be more such confrontations with the other members of the “founding five” (the publishers who have signed up as the initial product providers for the iBooks store). Read More-->.

By DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)

How do you build digital projects that make your client go “Wow” every time? At Zemoga, the WOW is where we start.

Not following me? WOW stands for “Web Opportunity Workshop”, our name for what is commonly known as a discovery session. The discovery session is a key component in any best practices Read More-->.

By Sven Larsen (@zemoga)

I’m catching up on some reading thanks to a few business trips. One of the volumes I was most looking forward to consuming is Ken Auletta’s GOOGLED, a comprehensive history of the search giant. While I’m just a couple of pages in to it so far, I can tell the book is going to provide some unique insights.

A passage from the book that really caught my attention was a quote from Google’s Chief Economist, Hal Varian. “The internet makes information available,” opined Varian, “Google makes it accessible.” It’s a concise summary of Google’s business but it also captures the essential struggle for all of us in the digital communications business – how to take raw data and turn it in to something compelling for consumers.

It’s my strong belief that as social media becomes more and more integrated in to our lives, accessibility will become more and more of an issue. Already, we’ve seen celebrities (both real and web versions) deleting Facebook pages and declaring Twitter blackout periods. In almost all these cases, it’s not the constant demand for content that these services require that is cited as the problem. It’s keeping up with the massive flow of information the other way. With literally millions of tweets and Facebook postings what are we supposed to pay attention to? Read More-->?

By Dan Licht (@thedvl)

We could follow the lead of many bloggers this week and give you many more predictions about what’s coming up for 2010. But if we have had any consistent message on this year it’s that the digital world is moving so fast that looking 12-18 months out can be self defeating (remember that less than a year and a half Read More-->?

Children are people. Little energetic people. They have their own thoughts, actions feelings. these traits are found in all people. So why are most sites designed for them treating them as hyperactive thugs unable to focus? Why do most sites for children forget the most common UX practices. In the past we have designed our fair share of sites for everything from lap-surfers to tweens & Read More-->?