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Creativity During the Pandemic: Pumpkin-Carving Beyond Jack O’Lanterns

Creativity During the Pandemic: Pumpkin-Carving Beyond Jack O’Lanterns

by David | Oct 20, 2020 | Design, Sip With Assurance

Carving Using Clay-Sculpture Tools To Produce Organic Art The “Night of 1,000 Jack-o-Lanterns” exhibit at the Chicago Botanical Gardens was a breath of fresh – albeit pumpkin-spice-scented – air. After months of feeling trapped, increasingly...
Migrating Sites & Dealing With Email: Not For the Faint of Heart

Migrating Sites & Dealing With Email: Not For the Faint of Heart

by David | Jun 4, 2019 | Design

Quick hit: here’s how to ensure all your past emails don’t vaporize when you migrate to a new hosting service Just got done with trying to help a friend with the fallout of migrating from one hosting provider to another, and I had a couple of insights:...

CSS 4: the Web Design Standard that Doesn’t Exist. Only It Does. Confused Yet?

by David | Jan 15, 2018 | Design, Digital Migration, UX/UI

Yesterday, upon the stair/ I saw a web design standard that was not there/ It was not there again today/ Gee, I wish it’d go away… Years ago, I helped the lovely & brilliant Janine Warner create books, classes and training videos about web design. This...

Shwedagon Pagoda and Dave by Night

by David | Aug 4, 2017 | Design

As with so many major cities in Asia, the ancient and the modern exist side-by-side.

Experimental VR Art Project at Google’s Venice HQ

by David | Mar 3, 2017 | Design, Friday Noon Videos, UX/UI, Video

Depending upon your tolerance for the sight of people wearing virtual reality helmets all craning their necks and looking about themselves, this video is either really charming or really alarming. Thanks to Kluge interactive for the invite to this special event....

How Big Data and Online Games Help Catch Scammers

by David | Jun 11, 2015 | Design, infographic

I did a case study on this use of analytics technology more than a year ago. The gist of it is this: online MMPORGs like World of Warcraft, EVE, Everquest, etc., are wonderful tools whereby to study human interactions. Here’s the gist: when you map the...
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