- Adobe Acrobat X Classroom in a Book: The Document Review Process
- Jan 5, 2011
- This lesson shows you multiple ways to use Acrobat in a document review process, how to annotate a PDF file with the Acrobat commenting and markup tools, view, reply to, search, and summarize document comments, initiate a shared review and initiate live collaboration.
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- Designing the Obvious: Build Only What Is Absolutely Necessary
- Dec 30, 2010
- Robert Hoekman explains why you must focus only on the features that are the most essential and build only what is absolutely necessary.
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- An Interview with Jesse James Garrett
- Dec 21, 2010
- Russ Unger interviews Jesse James Garrett about the new edition of The Elements of User Experience, what's changed since the first edition was released in 2002, why client work is still important to him, and the relationship between UX and the video game industry.
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- Pen Tool Mastery in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Dec 16, 2010
- Have you been ignoring Illustrator's Pen tool? Brian Wood wasn't crazy about working with the Pen tool, but after a bit of experimentation he has come to rely on it. Tune in here to learn some of Brian's best Pen tool techniques.
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- Introduction to Flash Animation in InDesign CS5
- Dec 15, 2010
- Who says you need to work with Adobe Flash to create Flash content? Adobe InDesign CS5 adds a load of new features and panels that enable you to add interactivity to your documents. From motion, buttons, video, and more, Brian Wood shows how you can turn your InDesign documents into multimedia extravaganzas!
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- Simple and Usable: An Interview with Giles Colborne
- Dec 13, 2010
- Karen McGrane interviews Giles Colborne about his book, Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design, where he discusses the four core solutions for simplifying, advice for designers, and finding “simplicty on the other side of complexity.”
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- Applying Transitions and Actions in Flash Catalyst CS5
- Dec 8, 2010
- Create Flash objects in Catalyst that literally hop, skip, and jump to liven up your website. And do it without Flash! David Karlins, author of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, takes you through the Catalyst techniques that make this miracle possible.
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- Building Adobe WorkflowLab, Part 5: Designing WorkflowLab
- Dec 1, 2010
- Continuing their series on the design and creation of WorkflowLab, Aaron Pedersen, James Polanco, and Doug Winnie, the authors of Adobe Flash Platform from Start to Finish: Working Collaboratively Using Adobe Creative Suite 5, discuss the final UI design process used to create the design comps and assets required to complete the project.
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- The Art and Science of Influential Web Content: What Rhetoric Really Is
- Dec 1, 2010
- In this excerpt from her book, Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content, Colleen Jones distills many of the useful ideas from the debate on the theory and scope of rhetoric into four principles for web content and offers advice on when to use what principles.
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- An Introduction to Using Code Snippets in Flash CS5
- Nov 30, 2010
- Chris Florio introduces the new Code Snippets feature in Flash CS5. This article shows how to add rich interactivity to Flash projects without writing any code, as well as how to modify the code snippets that Flash creates to customize your interactivity without a mastery of programming syntax.
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- Connecting Your TV to the Internet: Peachpit's Guide to Set-Top Boxes
- Nov 29, 2010
- Apple TV? Google TV? Roku? Ryan Faas examines the top options that should be on your list of possibilities for streaming audio and video to your home TV, pointing out the pros and cons of each system.
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- Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL: User Accounts
- Nov 25, 2010
- Larry Ullman shows you how to work with user accounts when creating an e-commerce website, including registration, logging in, logging out, managing passwords, and improving security.
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- Obvious, Yet Subtle: Making Interactivity Easy for Users
- Nov 22, 2010
- As the creator of an interactive project, you expend a lot of effort to make the project intuitive for the end user. You have to anticipate the needs and reactions of the viewers. Somehow, you have to make it obvious where to click in order to make things happen; otherwise, how will they know where all the fun is? Claudia McCue shows how to make interactivity simpler for your users.
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- The Art and Science of Influential Web Content: An Interview with Colleen Jones
- Nov 18, 2010
- Colleen Jones, author of Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content, discusses why influential web content is critical, the three real benefits of social networking, and the biggest mistake most organizations make with regard to their web content.
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- Fractal Documents Tell Infinite Stories: An Interview with Dan Brown
- Nov 17, 2010
- Miraz Jordan interviews Dan Brown, author of Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning, 2nd Edition, about how the field of user experience has changed, the three kinds of pressure user experience will face over the next decade, and why designers need to convey their concepts through stories.
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- The CSS Pocket Guide: Measurements, URLs, and Color Units
- Nov 17, 2010
- In this chapter from The CSS Pocket Guide, Chris Casciano explores some common units for defining sizes, colors, and URLs.
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- Create Custom Media Player Controls in Flash Catalyst CS5
- Nov 15, 2010
- David Karlins, author of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, demonstrates an easy way to create video player controls, without the need for Flash or scripting of any kind. You can adapt the simple shapes available in Flash Catalyst, providing them with the power of interaction to make them serve as play, pause, and stop player buttons.
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- Creating Flash Animations in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Nov 9, 2010
- Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, demonstrates a handy technique for animating Illustrator artwork or creating simple animations without the help of Flash.
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- Creating a Four-State Button with Flash Catalyst CS5
- Nov 2, 2010
- With the help of the new Flash Catalyst, David Karlins, author of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, demonstrates how to create a simple but powerful Flash object for embedding into a Dreamweaver website. No need to open Illustrator, Photoshop, or Flash Professional!
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- Undercover User Experience Design: Making It Real
- Oct 28, 2010
- The authors of Undercover User Experience Design discuss deliverables that you can use to document your ongoing design work, including sitemap, storyboard, and wireframe.
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