<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529</id><updated>2012-01-27T09:00:17.542-08:00</updated><category term='user testing'/><category term='design ideology'/><category term='Apple user interface'/><category term='software designers'/><category term='designers'/><category term='usability'/><category term='Design philosophy'/><category term='Apple iOS'/><category term='Apple design principles'/><category term='intutive design'/><category term='user persona'/><title type='text'>Enfresko Design Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>The Enfresko Design Blog is to provide readers information on featured atricles at Enfresko.com.

Latest industry information, design resources and upcoming events.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-7083569385796501947</id><published>2010-10-26T15:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-26T17:31:49.937-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='designers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='software designers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Design philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='usability'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design ideology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='user testing'/><title type='text'>Design Discussions Matter!</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;Consider this scenario:&lt;br /&gt;You have a box of Lego blocks, you have 10 people in a group. You are the moderator and you have an idea. You start by piecing something using just 5 blocks. You have to pass the block around to each individual in your group and you give them 1 instruction : "You can add 2 pieces to the assembly any more and you have to remove 1 for each additional piece. You cannot remove pieces such that the structural integrity of the assembly is comprised."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you assess the iteration after every round you will begin to notice a pattern. At a particular point an idea is injected and as the evolution progresses the idea is transferred for person giving it to the person receiving it. At the end of a 10 person iteration you will notice a dramatic change to your initial assembly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The key is perspective. If you super-impose this process on interface or software design you get concept of User Feedback. But most of us are used to testing what we conceived as an intuitive user interface and interaction work-flow against what a user feels about it. But what I'm trying to get to is far earlier than you've even shipped something off the drawing board. The decisions and trade-off made when you first start sketching .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That seems like a rather long preface to what I'm actually going to get into, but I felt it would be nice to add some flavor to a rather interesting design discussion at my work place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 Designers (User experience and Interface designers) and 1 Design pattern - Wizard flows. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the main objective of a Wizard Flow and what are some of the best implementations and some shortcomings in them. We got into a room, hooked the clunky Think Pad T500 to the projector, stacked up on some caffeine and started talking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we ended up doing is first a competitive analysis of different wizard implementations and then a rational implementation of a wizard flow for our application.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We analyzed EBay's search model, Amazon shopping model, Apple and Dell's Store purchase wizard, Geico's insurance quote system and Turbo Tax's tax filing work flow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;What did we deduce? Actually it was a series of questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;What are you selling?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;What are you promoting with a sale?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;How aggressively do you intend to promote the sale?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;What is your users objective?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do you know enough about your user to make that sale?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;How informed is the user at the end for the sale?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lot of questions but who's going to answer them? That's precisely the challenge an experience design should address. I'm going to skip the gory details and get to the point, "What did I consider in implementing my design"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first decision is that for a wizard flow to be successful I need to make sure that the user is actually interacting with a smart software.&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I need contextual and suggestive help.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For that to be successful I need to make sure that I have enough information about the user I'm dealing with. &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I need User Data Input.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to understand if I'm dealing with someone who is casually looking around or with some one who is serious about it. Users hate filling out forms or registering for the service just to find out what you have to offer. Based on that I need to decide when to prompt him to provide the data that I need.&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I need to inject subtle data gathering at intermediate stages of the flow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If its a large sale process that may involve 4 or more stages, I need to ensure that I retain the users attention and keep him motivated to complete the wizard.&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I need to provide progress indication, state saves and casual contextual text to motivate the user to move ahead.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had to create a sense of empowerment to the user. Allowing the user to make the decisions, be informed about how much its going to cost and at any-point feel free to leave.&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I need a clear and visible affordance to provide information about items purchased, discounts applied and ensure that the progress is saved.Something like a mini-cart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all that I was motivated enough to actually hit the drawing board and create this Frankenstein work-flow that I think will best suit the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I created a flow with 5 stages (in a crude nutshell)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Stage 1 :-&lt;/span&gt; Allow user to select from a set defined list of package bundles. Then buy it or customize it.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Stage 2 :-&lt;/span&gt; Get the basic data about the user is a short form that had the high-5 for my wizard to actually help customize the sale. Then buy or continue customizing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Stage 3 :-&lt;/span&gt; Inform the user that the system need just a little more information to help understand what to suggest. The user can fill out the information to see additional suggestions to understand the nature of the sale and then decide to buy.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Stage 4 :-&lt;/span&gt; Entice the user to buy additional package that may add a discount at the same time suggest only what the user may need. User can skip or look for discounts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Stage 5 :-&lt;/span&gt; Get the rest of the payment information, ask if they would like to create an account and make the sale!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the user decided not to create an id and consider it as a one-off purchase, auto generate a temporary id that the user can use to if they return. The next sale will be so much easier!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bottom line:&lt;/span&gt;Peers aren't around adding mass to office space. As a designer you need perspectives, some you may never even think of. It's easier to collaborate and reap the benefits than spend all those dollars on 4 rounds of iterative user testing, because you dint catch something earlier on.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;PS :&lt;/span&gt; I had 2 rounds of user testing and the highest success rate of all the work models I've designed and tested! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-7083569385796501947?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7083569385796501947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=7083569385796501947' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/7083569385796501947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/7083569385796501947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/design-discussions-matters.html' title='Design Discussions Matter!'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-6565811887422323175</id><published>2010-10-18T17:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-18T18:08:51.399-07:00</updated><title type='text'>iPhone Unified Alerts Project - 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TLzjmm4fEgI/AAAAAAAAHco/MGmVUCcy8t4/s1600/Cover.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TLzjmm4fEgI/AAAAAAAAHco/MGmVUCcy8t4/s320/Cover.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529544694916125186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After spending some time I've finally managed to complete the proof of concept for the iOS Unified Alerts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   1. Unified alerts/messaging affordance on lock screen&lt;br /&gt;   2. System settings panel for configuring unified alerts/messaging&lt;br /&gt;   3. Unobtrusive Alert Prompts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will find the URL to download the entire prototype at the end of the post. Give it a spin and let me know what you feel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TLzubmFjSsI/AAAAAAAAHdI/nuZRVr6sE2Y/s1600/7.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 166px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TLzubmFjSsI/AAAAAAAAHdI/nuZRVr6sE2Y/s200/7.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529556600351836866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Screen Shots&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TLzlWlR7wOI/AAAAAAAAHcw/JrzY-mzoQ50/s1600/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TLzlWlR7wOI/AAAAAAAAHcw/JrzY-mzoQ50/s320/1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529546618631340258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TLzldpvQ0xI/AAAAAAAAHdA/kavwWoqupU8/s1600/3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 192px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TLzldpvQ0xI/AAAAAAAAHdA/kavwWoqupU8/s200/3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529546740087182098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TLzlascF-6I/AAAAAAAAHc4/LkkAsQSuhxM/s1600/2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 192px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TLzlascF-6I/AAAAAAAAHc4/LkkAsQSuhxM/s200/2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529546689272478626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for looking! Do leave comments!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1485566/iOS%20Alerts%20Prototype/iOS_Unified_Alerts_Prototype.zip"&gt;DOWNLOAD PROTOTYPE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-6565811887422323175?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6565811887422323175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=6565811887422323175' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/6565811887422323175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/6565811887422323175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/iphone-unified-alerts-project-2.html' title='iPhone Unified Alerts Project - 2'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TLzjmm4fEgI/AAAAAAAAHco/MGmVUCcy8t4/s72-c/Cover.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-6048081980126575341</id><published>2010-09-24T16:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-25T00:26:25.186-07:00</updated><title type='text'>iPhone Wireframing Template</title><content type='html'>I read a  blog post by a designer named Morten and loved his experiment to create a stencil to design using Google Drawings! I was inspired to create one for the iPhone. It's an ongoing process and I'm going to update the template as I make progress on another project that I'm working on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I traditionally use Adobe Fireworks to create wireframes, I hate Visio and not too much experience with Omnigraffle, but this is a very nice alternative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some observations after using it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Copy and paste is still flaky and am hoping Google will address some of that soon.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;It could also use gradient support but in all its got some robust controls to create wireframes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I hope Google includes locking, sometime its painful when selecting objects!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ05GYgDY8I/AAAAAAAAHcA/FRDc0iPmfV0/s1600/iPhoneWireframingTemplate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 141px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ05GYgDY8I/AAAAAAAAHcA/FRDc0iPmfV0/s320/iPhoneWireframingTemplate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520631500044985282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The template is sectioned into 3 major sections&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Parts and Controls&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Drawing Board&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Interaction Indicators&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you like the template! If you've got some suggestions, do post! It's a ThinkTank project and I'd like to collaborate!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Original post : &lt;a href="http://mortenjust.com/2010/04/19/a-wireframe-kit-for-google-drawings/"&gt;A Wireframe kit for Google Drawings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My template : &lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/drawings/edit?id=17T-j7gYqjuY3jl2yffJ-7a-fkYbu6a70OEgDn0Rx5aE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;authkey=CO3P8YcM"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-6048081980126575341?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6048081980126575341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=6048081980126575341' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/6048081980126575341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/6048081980126575341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/iphone-wireframing-template.html' title='iPhone Wireframing Template'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ05GYgDY8I/AAAAAAAAHcA/FRDc0iPmfV0/s72-c/iPhoneWireframingTemplate.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-4466332987322374437</id><published>2010-09-24T15:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-24T16:26:54.443-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intutive design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='designers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apple user interface'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='software designers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Design philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apple iOS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design ideology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apple design principles'/><title type='text'>iPhone Unified Alerts Project - 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ0tHKqnbdI/AAAAAAAAHbg/mob6kYAmnEc/s1600/Cover.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 250px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ0tHKqnbdI/AAAAAAAAHbg/mob6kYAmnEc/s320/Cover.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520618319371529682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:transparent;"   &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Objective&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;To create a simple consolidated view for alerts and messaging on the iPhone lock screen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;Description&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;The  iPhone is a revolutionary device. It has a splendid user interface and  user experience model. It is the probably the smartest phone with the  best app store and user base. Over the last 3 year Apple has created and  innovated the iOS platform into a solid, productive environment for  designers and developers alike.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;But  in my opinion I did notice that the system has a limitation in terms of  messaging and alerts. Today they work by means of badge alerts and  dismissible alert prompts. Remember the times when you phone is sitting  on your desk and you went into a meeting and got back just to see if  someone called or if you’ve received any alerts or mails and you hit the  lock button? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;Today if you’ve received a series of calls or voice mails, you get a list on your lock screen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;If you’ve received a series of calendar alerts, they show up in chronological order, one at a time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;If you’ve received any emails, badge alerts, etc; You will have to unlock to view.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;What  I’m trying to address is a common consolidated messaging system that  shows up on the lock screen, that shows you a list of recent events that  have occurred when you were away from your phone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;Main features&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;1 - Unified alerts/messaging affordance on lock screen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;2 - System settings panel for configuring unified alerts/messaging&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:85%;" &gt;Disclaimer : I  am doing this purely for my own pleasure! I do not work for Apple Inc. I  do not work for any employee of Apple Inc. If Apple is developing  something similar to this under wraps, at-least I share the same thought  process with Apple designers! :) I’m a big time apple Fanboy!  :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"&gt;Over the next few days I'm going to be working on conceptualizing and designing the interaction and work-flow model required to illustrate an Unified Alert System for the Apple iOS platform.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"&gt;Version 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face="verdana" style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"&gt;I've created some high level flow charts that I will use to wireframe my design. There are 3 major scenarios that I will consider for my design.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul  style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"&gt;The iPhone in locked state&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"&gt;When in an application&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"&gt;When a call is in progress&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Scenario 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;This is my primary use case and the driving point for my project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ0ySeSg3CI/AAAAAAAAHbo/CVW7Hkt25SA/s1600/LockScreenWorkFlow.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ0ySeSg3CI/AAAAAAAAHbo/CVW7Hkt25SA/s400/LockScreenWorkFlow.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520624011175844898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Scenario 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;When you are using an application and you get an alert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ0yvGSRiXI/AAAAAAAAHbw/jMA2vcOm0Qg/s1600/InAppWorkFlow.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ0yvGSRiXI/AAAAAAAAHbw/jMA2vcOm0Qg/s320/InAppWorkFlow.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520624502948596082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Scenario 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;When a call is in progress and you receive an alert.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ0y69LQRqI/AAAAAAAAHb4/3drSbvJa8_M/s1600/InCallWorkFlow.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ0y69LQRqI/AAAAAAAAHb4/3drSbvJa8_M/s320/InCallWorkFlow.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520624706661664418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;So now that I have the main scenarios sketched out, I'm going to start creating wire-frames. Check back soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-4466332987322374437?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4466332987322374437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=4466332987322374437' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/4466332987322374437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/4466332987322374437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/iphone-unified-alerts-project-1.html' title='iPhone Unified Alerts Project - 1'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJ0tHKqnbdI/AAAAAAAAHbg/mob6kYAmnEc/s72-c/Cover.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-1086743998490305319</id><published>2010-09-21T13:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-21T14:25:39.590-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What is my design philosophy?</title><content type='html'>Its been about 7+ years in the Internet and Media industry. I've worked on so many different kinds of projects. Small websites to full featured applications. Yet I keep getting a question from peers "What is your design philosophy?".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets get some background information so you can relate to my career profile. I'm not educated in design, I've not been taught how to design, I've not been accredited by any institution in design! Yet I find my self doing what I do for the last 7 years. My passion in arts as a kid resonated into my decision to become a Graphic artist/Visual designer. That how I started my career!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I work as a User Experience Designer, blending the science of interactive media and user psychology with my skills in creative design. But that is vague right! I create usable interfaces and products  that users will eventually use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now moving on to the philosophy. Well if your in this industry you've probably heard some of these words throw/phrases at you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simple and intuitive design&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;User hand holding&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Optimum real estate usage&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Inconsistent behavior&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Usability results&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Visual clutter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hidden or skewed information&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;The list goes on! Some you probably never heard because your calling it something else! But in essence what your shooting for is a set of guidelines or principles that you can use as the foundation for your design process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I normally don't tag my design decision with a principle. For example, I try to make sure that in an application the entry path and exit path for  a user's operation to search is consistent, creating a consistent experience.  I don't call that out but I apply that process of thought when designing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the real question is how do you explain that you used that thought process when you started sketching designs? Some designs just work and you know applying that will solve the problem. Shouldn't your designs speak for them selves? Today there are so many successful interaction models for search that if you stray away too far, you can potentially create an painful experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes you work more out of instinct than from a hand book. Ideas and inspirations can resonate from a variety of places. But a big challenge is to paint a pretty picture of your design ideology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A conventional design process has these basic stages:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ideation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Design&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Iteration&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Construction&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Every designer is going to see these stages but yet your expected to illustrate something more. It isn't sufficient to present the end result for each of these stages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think its more about the process involved between these stages than the stage itself. People want to know what did it take for you to move from Ideation to Design.&lt;br /&gt;What was your interpretation of the requirement?&lt;br /&gt;What did you feel was needed to draw that first line on the drawing board?&lt;br /&gt;What changed from sketch 1 to sketch 2 to sketch 3?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That my friends gives a quantifiable reference to design principles! Unfortunately I've not been in the habit of documenting this process. But I think I'm going to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bottom line : I'm not deprived of design philosophy by any means, I just haven't been explaining it correctly!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-1086743998490305319?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1086743998490305319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=1086743998490305319' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/1086743998490305319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/1086743998490305319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-is-my-design-philosophy.html' title='What is my design philosophy?'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-4779695203980076737</id><published>2010-08-30T12:54:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-30T14:04:36.763-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intutive design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='designers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='software designers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Design philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='usability'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design ideology'/><title type='text'>Its all in the data : How user interface design is driven by information.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;As designers it's only natural to re-visit or re-use some design implementations that have worked best for us. At some point in our design careers we have a little cheat-sheet in our pockets that we use to allow for quick solutions. This creates individuality and gives character to our designs. There also comes a point where we append our cheat sheet with principles and methodology that have proven successful by other designers or solutions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But are you considering the fact that seldom do 2 solutions function identically? If you take a close look at your project history, you may have worked on similar products or you may have worked in sibling products and the oddball case when your asked to re-create based on an existing product. Now whatever may be the case, the end solution will always be different.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The key underlying fact is the data offering.  Based to the type and degree of data your, your designs will change. That's a fact. Lets put an example to this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;We are/have designed for 3 products, all solutions in the realm of data reporting. To take a more generic case, data is based on financial information.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Product A :&lt;/span&gt; Low degree of data, has most of the public information and a little historical data.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Product B :&lt;/span&gt; Low degree of data, has most of the public information and a little historical data but a more reputable brand name.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Product C :&lt;/span&gt; Medium degree of data but has a huge database of proprietary information that is not available anywhere.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Objective&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;All of the products sell a report that a subscriber will pay to obtain. The cost most certainly will vary, simply because of the quality of data.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Lets look at a hypothetical design for the three reports&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Report A :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; Since most of the information is publicly available, its more about data consolidation and presentation that will be the key selling point for this report. The objective would be to provide the user with a  one stop shop instead of doing the whole search and information gathering himself. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Some of the key design considerations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Present a simple report with formatted data&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use graphical representation  for the information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Highlight the span or spectrum of sources that has been used to obtain the data.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Report B :&lt;/span&gt; Now this company provided the same data but it all tagged with a popular brand name that you can trust. Right from the get-go your under the assumption that people will trust your data and information and the view that you provided which is an advantage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; Some of the key design considerations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Present a branded report with formatted data&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Provide a different perspective at looking at the information : Graphs, charts, maps, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Since the report if coming from a brand name that people trust, information source wouldn't be a big factor. Its a design decision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Now you can see that although the both reports proved similar financial information, you will have the 2 reports laid out differently.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Report C :&lt;/span&gt; The main selling point its the core data that is proprietary to this company. This information is not available anywhere and emphasizing that information will drive the design.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Some of the key design considerations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;The core data need to be highlighted in the report layout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Probably section the report as proprietary and public views?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use of graphics for the core data may be more useful than for the public data, but that's purely a design call!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The public data can be formatted or presented as is, another design call you would make.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok I'm sure at this point you've got a lot of question on some the pointers above, its only an example and a hypothetical design. The point I'm trying to make is how the data will affect your design process and some of the design decisions you will make. To some of us it may be a given during our design stage, some may not realize it but for some who don't it good to understand the data your working with and then work at designing a solution tailored to that data.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;A good example would be to quick  case study on  a product search results page. Different solutions have  different meta data information they provide or let you search on and  you will notice how the results vary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-4779695203980076737?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4779695203980076737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=4779695203980076737' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/4779695203980076737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/4779695203980076737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-all-in-data-how-user-interface.html' title='Its all in the data : How user interface design is driven by information.'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-2466354805265975296</id><published>2010-08-27T14:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-27T15:41:29.573-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intutive design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='designers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='software designers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Design philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='usability'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design ideology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='user persona'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='user testing'/><title type='text'>Who are you Designing for? - Why designers should ask that question.</title><content type='html'>Over the years the importance of design principles and philosophy has spread through the very fabric of the software business. More companies are now looking into means of strengthening their offerings with greater usability and intuitive solutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what is a good design? What really works for your consumers? The simple answer is, ask your consumers! Most products are tailored around a specific segment or type of customers. Understanding who they are and what they do would be the first step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As designers, it's only instinctive to start sketching out designs and prototypes under the assumption that we know what may,will or might work for the product. But that is where the problem starts, the first line we draw is an assumption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets put an example in to set some context. Lets take a very simple and widely used feature: SEARCH. Let's add a little more detail, Search for a e-commerce site. The first thing your going to do is slap in a text box and a button and name it "search".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No harm in that right, but in my perspective,do you really know&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;What you want your users to search? &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Should they be searching in the first place? &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How big in reality is your offering?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your offering is small(say 3 product categories and 100 items in total), a proper information architecture model can resolve the need for search. You have 3 sections, each listing the products available and the user can view and select.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your offering is larger than that, are you asking the user "Do you know what your looking for?".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is because you have 2 major classifications of user roles:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;The casual catalog shopper: &lt;/span&gt;One who isn't looking for anything in particular and wouldn't mind clicking through to see what you have to offer.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;The serious shopper:&lt;/span&gt; One who know exactly what they want and are either looking for a bargain or availability.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you think about it, as humans that is what we do when we go to the mall or a store.Based on which you can decide how much you need to stress on search. Again don't get me wrong here, I'm not debating if search is really required or not in an offering, I'm stressing on the importance of understanding who your users are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now in my opinion this is how I would start with my design process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background:#c8def5;padding:10px;border:1px solid #0066cc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Raw materials for an Idea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;I start by understanding the scope of the offering&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I try to get a sense of the size of the offering&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I will start writing up User Persona - one or 2 for each major classification I can think of.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I try to give these persona character I can relate to.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Starting with the Idea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Now that you know who is going to be using the offering, I then call some assumptions on what are they each going to be doing with the solution. (A good approach would be using post-its on a wall with operations or routes)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Soon I have a yellow plastered wall, I start to analyze the information to create use-cases.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Now match the use-cases to the different persona and now you have the basis for your offering.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Designing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;I've started this in different ways. Creating a one size fits all and creating one for each persona and blending them together. Either which way you decide to take it, create more than one end-design variant.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;SHARE! SHARE! SHARE! Present your designs to a variety of people, go to the extent of maybe asking your Gardner to have a look at your design, you may never know what you may uncover.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Soon after a few rounds of iteration you will begin to see how the design has evolved into a workable and usable product(at-least on paper).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;User Testing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now we are back to square one to be honest because what you have designed is a rendition of an idea with a good mix of assumptions and some degree of feedback.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;I normally built out a prototype for my user testing and I write my test script scenarios based on the persona scoped for the product.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Then you find a group of people to test your solution. If i have a prototype, I sometimes include a little quiz that will help identify the best match between your test user and the persona before they get started on the test procedure. This way I know that there is some degree of relevance between my test user and my test scenarios.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I like to keep grading very strict to 3 levels : Pass(user understood the objective),Fail(user did not understand the objective) and Help(user was provided with some assistance). How I grade is as follows&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;+1 for pass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;-1 for fail&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;+1.5 for Help and pass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;-1.5 for help and fail.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do the math and then you will have a good gauge of your designs success or failure.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the years I've practiced this for most projects that I work on and you will then begin to understand that there is a clear and definitive trend between the Business offering, the user base and designs that work for them. Soon you'll build up a formidable arsenal of design principles that have worked and you'll be able to quicken the time it takes for the pre-design process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please feel free to leave you comments and thanks for reading.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-2466354805265975296?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2466354805265975296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=2466354805265975296' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/2466354805265975296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/2466354805265975296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/who-are-you-designing-for-why-designers.html' title='Who are you Designing for? - Why designers should ask that question.'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-5971145863021055096</id><published>2009-10-07T00:32:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-07T00:51:17.893-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Future of the Apple Mouse is near!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/SsxIasuxh6I/AAAAAAAAFmg/QYW_erJsAew/s1600-h/featured_Story.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 66px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/SsxIasuxh6I/AAAAAAAAFmg/QYW_erJsAew/s320/featured_Story.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389762477576783778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rumor has it that Apple is working on soon to be unveiled Multi-touch enabled mouse that will succeed the Mighty Mouse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There isn't enough to speculate what exactly the next generation Apple mouse will boast but it will most likely do away with the mechanical roller ball.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've heard a lot of mixed reviews and opinions about the Mighty Mouse, but I personally find it a dream to work with. I find it designed specifically for the Mac and naturally provides for the great Mac OS X features.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its been 26 years not since Apple introduced the mouse with the Lisa. Its come a long way in terms of design. The iMac mouse released in 1998 is probably one of my favorites. Considering the era they released it, it was screaming for attention and had a distinct charisma for the hordes of boring mouses that flooded the market. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wikipedia has a great entry on the apple mouse and its evolution over the years. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mouse"&gt;Read the article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now talking about next-gen input devices, Microsoft's Research Lab has release some info on what they are calling the Mouse 2.0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/z6krcU6mZW0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/z6krcU6mZW0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of these are interesting and very cool but for some reason I don't want to "Learn to use the mouse, all over again!!". In my opinion this is the key that will decide who has the best Next-Gen Mouse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My gut feeling is that Apple have already taken this into account and acknowledging the fact that they simply have the best product designers, I'm sure that when they do unveil the new Apple Mouse, it will be a winner from the starting line!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, only time will tell as the future of the mouse is right around the corner!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-5971145863021055096?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5971145863021055096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=5971145863021055096' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/5971145863021055096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/5971145863021055096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/future-of-apple-mouse-is-near.html' title='The Future of the Apple Mouse is near!'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/SsxIasuxh6I/AAAAAAAAFmg/QYW_erJsAew/s72-c/featured_Story.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-7367283458012499546</id><published>2009-07-19T22:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-19T23:14:58.433-07:00</updated><title type='text'>RSS Feed for your site</title><content type='html'>RSS feeds are great web technology. Today almost every major website has an RSS feed and all service based websites (Facebook, Twitter, etc) empower feeds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But how simple is it to use all these data sources? Every RSS feed is basically a data source that contains a title, description and probably an image. But is there any way to create a mash-up of all the data sources offered?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some basics about these feeds is that the data sources are free and require an RSS feed reader to view the information. All modern browsers have built in readers. But to create a mash-up you will need to read this information and display it. There are scripts out on the web that gives allow you to use java-script and PHP to implement this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there are service providers that make life a lot easier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xfruits.com/"&gt;X-Fruits&lt;/a&gt; Flash Based&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.widgetbox.com"&gt;Widgetbox&lt;/a&gt; Flash Based&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yourminis.com/"&gt;Yourminis&lt;/a&gt; Flash Based&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your can skin the widget, resize and add a few lines of code and your done. You can add this content practically every where from Blogs to websites. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check them out!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-7367283458012499546?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7367283458012499546/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=7367283458012499546' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/7367283458012499546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/7367283458012499546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/rss-feed-for-your-site.html' title='RSS Feed for your site'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-6821016300015733789</id><published>2009-07-17T16:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T18:36:09.986-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Free Online Storage and Backup</title><content type='html'>Online data storage and backup is a growing business with people having to backup large volume of data. An average music library can range anywhere from 5GB to 50GB stored away on a local drive. Then there is the photo library, your important documents and the mammoth video library! Running out of space is an easy goal to cross these day. But what if your drive crashes??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I currently have 3 accounts each with a different service provider for varying online storage volumes. All free off course! Before we get into these service, let me give you a quick overview of what I use online storage for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1- Create a Data back-up (Archive data)&lt;br /&gt;2- Create a Sync folder (Working across multiple systems)&lt;br /&gt;3- Share my music&lt;br /&gt;4- Save my digital Movie purchases&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately none of the 3 services I'm reviewing today provide for all my requirements. Hence I have 3 accounts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now on to each service&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://static.adrive.com/images/logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 249px; height: 85px;" src="https://static.adrive.com/images/logo.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adrive was the first service I registered for. I wanted to provide downloads on my site but I dint want to waste my hosting space. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Adrive provides 50GB of online storage for free!&lt;br /&gt;- They also have a desktop utility for easy file upload.&lt;br /&gt;- The online interface allows you to create folders and share files on a public folder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; When you share a a file, it serves the file over an exclusive share link. All you need to do is provide this link for anyone to download the file. But the catch is, the HTML the file is served on has Ads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.adrive.com"&gt;Get Adrive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://res0.esnips.com/common/images/logo.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 157px; height: 47px;" src="http://res0.esnips.com/common/images/logo.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esnips is also another provider that gives 50GB of online space. Most users share music, primarily because esnips has a widget that sources you music files and creates a play list. You can add this esnips widget just about anywhere and add some music to your site. They also have esnips slideshows for images.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Esnips 50GB free online space&lt;br /&gt;- Esnips provided convenient media tools for your Blog/site.&lt;br /&gt;- You can also archive data in a private folder.&lt;br /&gt;- Share Private folders with a specified mailing list.&lt;br /&gt;- Share individual files or folders(Great for Photo albums and music)&lt;br /&gt;- Adding to slideshows or playlist is easy and you can also collect for other public libraries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esnips.com/"&gt;Get Esnips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.getdropbox.com/static/1247877444/images/logo.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 236px; height: 62px;" src="https://www.getdropbox.com/static/1247877444/images/logo.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dropbox is my personal favorite. Its just the simple easy of data Sync and back-up. I use multiple systems, windows based for work and macs at home. Getting data moved across seamlessly over the net has never been simpler. Dropbox creates a folder in your system called "My Dropbox" Any file you move into the dropbox is synced immediately online. you can create an instance of dropbox on different systems and the data is synced real time. Dropbox is a brilliant tool and is very effective when collaborating. Whats the pain point - they offer only 2GB of free space.Drop box is not good for content serving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Offers 2GB online space&lt;br /&gt;- Multiple system data sync&lt;br /&gt;- Great UI and extremely user friendly.&lt;br /&gt;- Offers both public and private folders views.&lt;br /&gt;- Referral program to increase your online storage upto 3GB&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTE0ODU1NjY5"&gt;Get Dropbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-6821016300015733789?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6821016300015733789/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=6821016300015733789' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/6821016300015733789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/6821016300015733789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-online-storage-and-backup.html' title='Free Online Storage and Backup'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-9006489559427928725</id><published>2009-07-16T16:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-16T16:41:09.240-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Layers Magazine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl-6cPwLl-I/AAAAAAAAEkM/Hh_KDdjYL5k/s1600-h/Layers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 66px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl-6cPwLl-I/AAAAAAAAEkM/Hh_KDdjYL5k/s320/Layers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359207076021901282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part of my weekly design mantra is to check out the latest tutorial posted on Layers! This site is a gold mine and their Caption reads - "The how-to magazine for everything Adobe". They host elaborate tutorials for various Adobe products. The Tutorials provide just the right depth and are very useful. I'm a strong believer of Learn-It-Yourself and layers provides that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another interesting section that I keep track of is the "Photoshop Killer Tips - By Matt Kloskowski". There are some many tip and tricks and some may seem trivial, but the real magic happens when I start using my newly acquired skills while I'm designing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They also have a magazine, priced at an annual subscription of $28 for 6 issues which I think is worth the buck. Another great section in the Layers online site is the reviews section.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All in all its a great resource for designers and something you must most certainly RSS to your daily reader!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.layersmagazine.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go get some Layers!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-9006489559427928725?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/9006489559427928725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=9006489559427928725' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/9006489559427928725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/9006489559427928725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/part-of-my-weekly-design-mantra-is-to.html' title='Layers Magazine'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl-6cPwLl-I/AAAAAAAAEkM/Hh_KDdjYL5k/s72-c/Layers.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-2251091450742604317</id><published>2009-07-16T16:37:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-16T16:38:16.597-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Snapizzi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl-54PME-yI/AAAAAAAAEkE/7gwxXaLoM5Q/s1600-h/snapizzi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 66px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl-54PME-yI/AAAAAAAAEkE/7gwxXaLoM5Q/s320/snapizzi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359206457395182370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a Freelance Photographer(I'm more of a Hobbyist), I have often been asked to take pictures for people at the places I visit with my gear. I normally end up providing my website and my email address for folks to get back to me for the photographs I take. Snapizzi ads the professional punch to the scenario. What if you could present your unique IZ tag(digital Barcode) and have someone access your work to purchase you photographs?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Snapizzi is a web portal that provides practicing photographers with a unique ID and web portal to publish and sell their photographs. You could actually build the whole e-cart or purchase an off-the-self solution form a huge pile of software solution providers, but what if you could get that for free?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With customizable IZ cards you can had off to clients and a good online e-cart portal with performance analytics and most important, a way to make some green - it's the whole package a photographer could ask for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.Snapizzi.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get your Snapizzi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-2251091450742604317?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2251091450742604317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=2251091450742604317' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/2251091450742604317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/2251091450742604317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/snapizzi.html' title='Snapizzi'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl-54PME-yI/AAAAAAAAEkE/7gwxXaLoM5Q/s72-c/snapizzi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-2717282259908417707</id><published>2009-07-15T16:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-15T16:23:59.188-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pixlr - Online Image Editing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5k6nFM1XI/AAAAAAAAEj8/DEDHx2V27C8/s1600-h/pixlr.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 66px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5k6nFM1XI/AAAAAAAAEj8/DEDHx2V27C8/s320/pixlr.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358831564703454578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Free online editors are not new or unheard of. These editors being web based, remove the hassles of work stations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I often find myself in a position where I would like to make a quick edit to a design I was working on. Or maybe I wanted to make an edit to a photo I took, on vacation at the hotel I was saying at! What ever the scenario, it is a powerful tool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pixlr makes it fairly easy to do some sophisticated (and unsophisticated) things with images online. The first thing you will notice about Pixlr is that is very quick. The Flash-based web app has an impressive set of tools, from a text engine that can use nearly any font available on your computer to layers and filters for masking and effects, respectively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pixlr.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try Pixlr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-2717282259908417707?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2717282259908417707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=2717282259908417707' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/2717282259908417707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/2717282259908417707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-online-editors-are-not-new-or.html' title='Pixlr - Online Image Editing'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5k6nFM1XI/AAAAAAAAEj8/DEDHx2V27C8/s72-c/pixlr.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-8159594108849119239</id><published>2009-07-15T16:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-15T16:19:11.966-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cushy CMS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5j2JLfCzI/AAAAAAAAEj0/NcOZOZpHzpU/s1600-h/cushycms.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 66px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5j2JLfCzI/AAAAAAAAEj0/NcOZOZpHzpU/s320/cushycms.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358830388445645618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CushyCMS is a Content Management Systems (CMS) that is truly simple and also happens to be free. Content editors will love managing their content with this system. No training required, it's just that easy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But on a closer look Cushy CMS is not really a CMS. It merely provides the ability to edit files on your server. For most ( if not all) webmasters this is a weak tool! Personally I prefer managing sites using Dreamweaver's Site manager. But for a client who isn't all about looking at the code and making changes this would be a brilliant and inexpensive solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cushy CMS works by providing the interface to edit any part of the webpage that is identified using the "CushyCMS" class name. All you have to do is create a page and identify the parts you would allow CushyCMS to edit and when you log-in to your dashboard in CushyCMS, you can make the changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It allows webmasters to create user profiles and has just the right amount of rights and permissions.&lt;br /&gt;Check out the "&lt;a href="http://www.statelesssystems.com/cushy/lightbox.html"&gt;How to edit a site with CushyCMS video&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Final word : I would recommend this for anyone who is creating a simple CMS solution for their clients&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cushycms.com/"&gt;Goto CushyCMS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-8159594108849119239?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8159594108849119239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=8159594108849119239' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/8159594108849119239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/8159594108849119239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/cushy-cms.html' title='Cushy CMS'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5j2JLfCzI/AAAAAAAAEj0/NcOZOZpHzpU/s72-c/cushycms.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-2867315315070175185</id><published>2009-07-15T16:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-15T16:10:04.509-07:00</updated><title type='text'>FreelanceSwitch</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5hvZijdsI/AAAAAAAAEjs/NH13i_8beDk/s1600-h/Freelance_Switch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 66px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5hvZijdsI/AAAAAAAAEjs/NH13i_8beDk/s320/Freelance_Switch.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358828073555031746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Community of Freelancers. On this site you'll find Advice, Jobs, Resources and much more!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are loads of articles to read, great forum for information and a truck load of resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://freelanceswitch.com/"&gt;Goto FreelanceSwitch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-2867315315070175185?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2867315315070175185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=2867315315070175185' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/2867315315070175185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/2867315315070175185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/freelanceswitch.html' title='FreelanceSwitch'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5hvZijdsI/AAAAAAAAEjs/NH13i_8beDk/s72-c/Freelance_Switch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-7130899012416386711</id><published>2009-07-15T16:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-15T16:07:59.294-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Piclens</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5hE2nRpHI/AAAAAAAAEjk/aPzOVejX5-s/s1600-h/piclens.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 66px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5hE2nRpHI/AAAAAAAAEjk/aPzOVejX5-s/s320/piclens.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358827342625088626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PicLens transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for photos and videos across the web. Media comes to life via a cinematic presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. Available for Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cooliris.com/"&gt;Learn about PicLens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-7130899012416386711?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7130899012416386711/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=7130899012416386711' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/7130899012416386711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/7130899012416386711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/piclens-transforms-your-browser-into.html' title='Piclens'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5hE2nRpHI/AAAAAAAAEjk/aPzOVejX5-s/s72-c/piclens.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-8869807140056609676</id><published>2009-07-15T16:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-15T16:05:51.330-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Slideshow Pro</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5gfTUEz0I/AAAAAAAAEjc/a46jV12tXl4/s1600-h/Slideshowpro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 66px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5gfTUEz0I/AAAAAAAAEjc/a46jV12tXl4/s320/Slideshowpro.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358826697494155074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Publish web-ready photo galleries and slideshows of your content with SlideShowPro for Flash. With over 60 customizable parameters to control color, layout, size, and behavior for endless configuration options. Built to meet the demands of professional photographers and web developers looking to create slideshows without coding any ActionScript.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slideshowpro.net"&gt;Goto Slideshowpro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-8869807140056609676?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8869807140056609676/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=8869807140056609676' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/8869807140056609676'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/8869807140056609676'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/slideshow-pro.html' title='Slideshow Pro'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5gfTUEz0I/AAAAAAAAEjc/a46jV12tXl4/s72-c/Slideshowpro.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831327187721530529.post-9099091022959889210</id><published>2009-07-15T15:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-15T16:02:30.624-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Deviant Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5f173rUcI/AAAAAAAAEjU/twVYDNUXg80/s1600-h/deviant.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 66px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5f173rUcI/AAAAAAAAEjU/twVYDNUXg80/s320/deviant.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358825986826392002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deviously serving the art and skin community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is always something new to look at here. Thousands or artists submit their art everyday. A very good place to get some ideas and meet other artists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;Goto Deviant Art&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4831327187721530529-9099091022959889210?l=enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/feeds/9099091022959889210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4831327187721530529&amp;postID=9099091022959889210' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/9099091022959889210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4831327187721530529/posts/default/9099091022959889210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://enfreskodesignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/deviant-art.html' title='Deviant Art'/><author><name>Enfresko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14952056957294679921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/TJkZHhcDqsI/AAAAAAAAHaw/cxZHtkTvaCE/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K086-kS6rVw/Sl5f173rUcI/AAAAAAAAEjU/twVYDNUXg80/s72-c/deviant.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
