Emily Chang – Designer

In his essay, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications, Jesse James Garrett articulates a new use of several existing technologies – XHTML, CSS, DOM, XML, and Javascript, which, when used together as an “Ajax engine” could change the nature of web applications.  By moving to asynchronous patterns of delivery, the whole paradigm of a page refreshing and content loading only when the user requests it can shift to something much more akin to a fast desktop application.  The challenge for designers and engineers alike will be to apply this thinking to delivering better control, content, or experiences to the visitor.

The blobject has so much appeal.  Learn more at the exhibition page at the San Jose Museum of Art…

Beginning Saturday, March 5th the San Jose Museum of Art’s first floor galleries will brim with curvaceous, boldly designed products and prototypes as the museum opens its first-ever exhibition devoted to industrial design. The exhibition, Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary look at the objects that fill our lives, chosen from a rich range of product, furniture, graphic, media and architectural work from across the globe.

Sometimes the least likely event turns out to be a blessing in disguise.  That’s how I’ve been feeling lately.  I’m no longer working for the marketing consulting company for higher education where I’ve been for over two years.  While everything was a surprise to me when it happened, in retrospect, I had already felt the shift months ago, and should have believed my own instincts.

If you’re in a position or with a company and feeling that everything is not as it seems, and the people that you work with are not what they say, believe in yourself.  I’ve always been a team player, but I’ve also been driven by the need to innovate, to be immersed in the web, and to collaborate to create new solutions. Take the plunge.  Start your own enterprise.  Nothing has ever felt so right.

After nine years in the industry, as freelancers, employees, and consultants of other people’s companies, Max and I have started our own strategic web design company.  Visit ideacodes.com to see what we’re all about.