Markers

Sometimes I forget I an draw

TEDx program Illustration proof

This is where I am with the illustration now. Some stock art, some personal drawings, etc.   Doesnt feel TED enough.    Going to sleep on it.

I loved using the metro map.

illustration proof for TEDxPotomac- may 20th in DC

TEDxPotomac motion pieces

QR wallpaper

Mixing old with new – but imagine if every QR code was different. What an amazing space you could have.

Device Central

Learning how to use Device Central.  If the future of development is going to be mobilzied, I want to be there.

Pepsi: Letter Substitution

How do Brand’s expand into social entrepreneurship?

Initially, I thought this was a simple clever clean looking number substitution ad. As an Ad itself, it asks me what I want instead of telling me what I should want. Pepsi is in the background.

Then, I wondered about the Pepsi Refresh project as a whole. They refresh their look, they activate their corporate giving program ( I don’t know the particulars of pepsi as a disclaimer and how they give, required or not ), and they achieve good community outreach at the expense of being viewed as an excellent service oriented for profit company. Its a win win win.

It’s still the same Pepsi, but if I now think of Pepsi as a community partner instead of a conglomerate soda company, maybe I will think twice about which way I lean in the cola war saga.  What do I care about? And why is that somehow linked in my head to Pepsi (jk).

Integrated Advertising

I loved stumbling upon this. Too bad it wasn’t SEO related.

But, I liked thinking, when can you skin an entire website to link to a product? When does this help or hurt the parent content? And, if the graphical elements are skinned, how does this influence how we approach designing for UX?

-pd

New website: 54 minutes

Thus, completing my first CSS based website ever!   A large improvement from the last one I think.  Posted live at … www.patrickdonnelly.com

According to Gridiron flow, the whole process took 54 minutes, start to finish!

Now… Two tasks.

1. Make 2nd button “re-appear,” modern UX theory holds that it is hard for people to interact with a website when certain buttons are invisible.

2. make scrolling js window graphics larger.

3. make it better.

UX: Nebula7 Mashup Interface for open data sets

Interface Comp for Nebula 7: A social entrepreneurship platform that allows people to visualize open gov data sets.

UX interface play

aesthetic works, but lacks style and context. think about 960

Playing around with drop shadows and remembering how to make fake glass effects.