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Packing Lite: A Mobile Media Interface Design Primer

August 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Article Published on Adobe Developer Center Introducing Design Principles for Flash Lite
Read Packing Lite: A mobile media interface design primer on Adobe’s Developer Center to get my perspective how to adapt to directional-pad based devices in Flash Lite. I detail the process of transferring SWF files to Nokia Series 60 devices and analyze a 4-way [...]

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Adobe DevNet Article Publishing Soon

August 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Article to be published on Adobe Developer Center
Packing Lite: Getting Started Designing Interfaces for Mobile Media
I wrote an article/tutorial for Adobe’s Developer Center to be published at the end of August covering how to get started designing interfaces in Flash Lite on Nokia Series 60 devices. It details how to get equipped for mobile media [...]

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iPhone 1.1 Software Update Imminent, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 Bug Fixes and Improvements Emerging

July 31st, 2007 · No Comments

iPhone 1.1?According to Apple’s VP of iPod Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak, via AppleInsider→, the first free software update for the iPhone should be available shortly.

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Adobe AIR Seminar with Big Spaceship

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

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Adobe Integrated Runtime demonstrated by Big Spaceship.

This afternoon, Joshua Hirsch and Jamie Kosoy from Big Spaceship, here in Brooklyn, presented Building Adobe AIR Applications with Flash CS3 on the Adobe Connect presentation service.

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Lecture: The Origins of Interactive Media

June 21st, 2007 · No Comments

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The Origins of Interactive Media.

A brief examination of two influential American scientists who pioneered the idea of interactive information systems and graphics. Dr. Vannevar Bush, The Memex↑ and Dr. Ivan Sutherland, Sketchpad↑. Their research accomplishments resonate through every aspect of modern computing. A lecture given on Thursday, June 21, 2007, 13:30, Room B413 at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University.Sponsored by Information Art & Design in collaboration with Communication Design & Technology, Parsons The New School for Design.

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