Oct 252006

I got my first batch of cards from Moo today and they are great. I can’t recommend the site enough. The product is neat – any image you like form your Flickr account on the back of a business (ish) card, the user experience is brilliant, and the result is pretty high quality – all for $25 for 100. Brilliant…..

You can also do Skype cards, get ten for free using the ‘freebie’ code.

So yesterday I went to a Carson Workshop called Designing Elegant CSS Interfaces presented by Cameron Moll at a place called the Energy Clinic on Commerical Street just up the road from me in East London. To be honest I had little to no idea what to expect. I’m not a graphic designer by trade and that was clearly who the course was aimed at.

The course contained 6 hours of material from Cameron based around the following 6 areas:

  1. History of Computing UI
  2. Choosing an Approach
  3. Interface Essentials
  4. Managing Complexity
  5. CSS Proficiency
  6. Finessing Your Skills

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Had a great evening last night at the Web Design Meetup on Great Portland St in London. Simon Willison gave a very interesting talk (even the lack of a functioning projector didn’t detract) on the Yahoo javascript / AJAX libraries that have been open sourced for us to all enjoy (there are his notes from a previous but similar presentation here, Simon is obviously a bit of an evangalizer for the Yahoo UI libraries and why not…)

Niklas Richardson also gave a speed introduction to Flex 2, which despite my general opinion of Flash I have to admit was very impressive.

In following up on these people I then came across the Brit Pack page which has some very interesting people / sites / info. Check it out.