By Dan Harrelson on Aug 29, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
For most casual web users today, the smallest thing on the Internet is a web page. This is the element that a user can recall via a URL, store in a bookmark or forward to another user. Sure, there’s sub-elements of a page such as the text or an image or an embedded video, but [...]
By Dan Harrelson on Aug 27, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Adaptive Path is a pretty homogeneous company, technologically speaking. We’re a 100% Mac shop. Some of us fire up Parallels to create a Visio document or to play with Expressions, but this is a rarity. As a developer this limits my ability put a page design through it’s paces on disparate platforms and web browsers. [...]
By Dan Harrelson on Aug 8, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
A foundational concept within Adaptive Path’s Aurora browser vision is that your web is always available. This idea is visualized in the video when the New York Times’ article Jill is reading on her desktop computer later appears on her mobile device.
What do we mean by your web? With advances in computational power and limitless [...]
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By Dan Harrelson on Aug 5, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Mozilla is home to one of the most impressive open source development communities in the world, and now they’re reaching out to designers. At Adaptive Path, we immediately recognized this as an opportunity to influence an ubiquitous piece of software that we use everyday. We were especially thrilled to create the Aurora Concept Browser as [...]
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By Dan Harrelson on Aug 4, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Working with Mozilla on their browser concept series gave Adaptive Path the unique opportunity to tackle a design project in the world of open source software. Joining an open source software project usually requires one thing: the ability to cut code. If you live in the world of functions, methods, Git, SVN, and SQL, you’ll [...]
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By Dan Harrelson on Jul 30, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
I recently chatted with Jensen Harris, commonly known as the man behind the Microsoft Office ribbon interface. Jensen will be joining us in 2 weeks as a UX Week speaker. I find it interesting that both Jensen and Adaptive Path share a strong belief in using what we call “design principles” and he calls “design [...]
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