Ideacodes to Provide Design Consulting to Foldera
My web consultancy, Ideacodes, has been hired by Foldera, a Huntington Beach based company founded by CEO Richard Lusk. Foldera has created an innovative new web-based productivity suite which “inverts the sorting and filing paradigm,” allowing users to centralize communications based on context. Ideacodes will be providing strategic design consulting on Foldera’s application as well ...
A-Z West
Andrea Zittel has always been one of my favorite artists since I saw her work in NYC in the late nineties. The NYTImes has a review of her latest work in Rethinking the World by Cutting it Down to Size. That she puts her money where her mouth is, so to speak, is evident in ...
guimp
This reminds me of the artweb projects that I first fell in love with in the late 90s and the pixel art sites that followed. Check out guimp, the world’s smallest website.
MashupCamp Day 1
I’m at MashupCamp, a two day event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, nestled in Silicon Valley, south of Palo Alto and north of Sunnyvale. I mention that because there’s a palatable sense of tech here in the Bay area that can’t be ignored. It’s one of the reasons that I moved ...
Pre-Pre-Supernova Party
Thursday night was Kevin Werbach’s Pre-Pre-Supernova party here in SF, just a couple blocks away at Cha-Am Thai. The dinner was a great chance to network and chat with leading tech innovators, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders. My partner at Ideacodes, Max Kiesler, and I met and talked to many people, in particular, Esme Vos of ...
TechCrunch 5 Party
Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch 5 party for Shel Israel and Robert Scoble’s new book, Naked Conversations, was a big success on Friday night in Atherton, CA. Some 400 people showed up at Mike’s house to mingle, hang out, congratulate Shel and Robert, and generally celebrate amidst a great crowd of techies, bloggers, entrepreneurs, tech giants, thought ...
Emily Chang featured in Designers Who Blog
Thanks to Catherine (cat) Morley, creator of Designers Who Blog, for featuring EmilyChang.com and eHub! Read Cat’s entry about eHub here.
The Agile Web Design Manifesto, An Introduction
Co-authored by Emily Chang and Max Kiesler of Ideacodes. On August 20, 1980, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to summit Mount Everest without the use of bottled oxygen. They accomplished this amazing feat by doing what no other expedition had ever done. They carried all of their own gear, did no route ...
Emio Series
My new series!
Twenty Years Later: No Longer Just a Hobby
Today turns out to be the twenty year anniversary of when George Lucas sold Pixar to Steve Jobs. In the post, “February 3, 1986: Divorce, Mogul Style,” Chris Seibold tells how Lucas decided to “see a smallish piece of his Lucas Film empire” to raise cash to settle his divorce. Given Lucas’ predicament, Steve Jobs ...
Stanford on iTunes
Having spent many years developing web products for higher education, I’m always interested when universities or colleges open up their knowledge banks to the public using new technologies (see OpenCourseWare Finder). I can’t wait to try out Stanford on iTunes, a collaboration with Apple to provide public access to a variety of digital audio (will ...
ExpressionEngine Contest
I’m pleased to announce that my Ideacodes partner, Max Kiesler and I will be on a panel of judges for the ExpressionEngine $15,000 Shootout. Contest entries can be Commercial, Personal, and Core sites so anybody with an ExpressionEngine powered site can enter. Your website will be judged on innovation, excellence of design, usability, and content. ...