Weeknotes #29
The last week of the year
Clearleft 2013 Internship - Chüne
At the start of October we took on a team graduate interns for a three month period to "design a product that turned an active digital behaviour into a passive one". Their internship finished today, so this is the story of the project, an introduction to what they created, and the lessons Clearleft learned along the way.
Weeknotes #28
'Tis the season to buy UX London tickets.
Weeknotes #27
It's been a busy week and we even managed to fit in our Christmas party in the middle.
Hackfarm- One Week, a Dozen Projects, 20 "Lefties"
Ant's quick overview of the Hackfarm 2013 experience- the structure, the projects, the whole shebang. If he comes across as slightly bewildered, do bear in mind it was the poor chap's first week on the job.
Points to Pixels at EDO
Ant Miller shares his thoughts on the EDO event "From Points to Pixels" at Central St Martins, which explored the experiences of two Creative Directors who span the print and digital worlds and are leading innovative work in their fields.
Weeknotes #26
As is now traditional for Clearleft this time of year, (nearly) the whole team went away for a week to build something(s). We call this Hack Farm.
Architect and client design approach
Martin at Landivar Architects writes about working with us on the development of 68 Middle Street.
- Tiny Lesson
Icon fonts, unicode ranges, and IE8’s compatibility mode
While doing some browser testing this week, Mark come across a particularly wicked front-end problem. Something was triggering compatibility mode in Internet Explorer 8 and he couldn’t figure out what it was.
Jeremy Keith
6 November 2013
Reflecting on our new home
We moved into our new offices at 68 Middle Street almost 6 weeks ago now. I’ve been reflecting on the scheme, both from a design point of view and project management.
- Viewpoint
Reflections on Ampersand New York
I’m writing this on a Boing 747 headed back to Heathrow, having spent four splendid days in New York.
Richard Rutter
3 November 2013
Weeknotes #25
Rich, Batesy, Tessa and Kate travelled to America mid week to set up and then run Ampersand New York on Saturday.
Weeknotes #24
Tessa and Sophie have been preparing the space downstairs for our new tenants to move in next week making it a full house. They have also been talking to people about using our auditorium for local community events. Speaking of which, we’ll be hosting this years UX Barcamp Brighton on November 2nd.
- News
Listen to dConstruct 2013
If you didn't make it to this year's dConstruct, at least your ears can catch up. If you did make it to this year's dConstruct, your ears can experience the fun all over again.
The audio is available, is what I'm saying here.
- Amber Case: Ambient Location and the Future of the Interface
- Luke Wroblewski: Infinite Inputs
- Nicole Sullivan: Don't Feed the Trolls
- Simone Rebaudengo: Great; things are connected, but what will they actually talk about?
- Sarah Angliss: Tech and the Uncanny
- Keren Elazari: The Heroes and Anti-heroes of the Information Age
- Maciej Cegłowski: Fan is a Tool-Using Animal
- Dan Williams: Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area
- Adam Buxton: Is My Laptop Ruining My Life?
The audio is on Huffduffer for your listening pleasure. If you'd like to take it with you on the go, here's the RSS feed--just pop that into your podcasting/catching software of choice.
While you're at it, this might be a nice opportunity to go back and explore the dConstruct archive where you can find every talk from every dConstruct from 2005 to 2013. That's 70 talks, or about 46 hours of listening pleasure.
Share and enjoy!
Jeremy Keith
14 October 2013
Weeknotes #23
Dear world,
- Viewpoint
Weeknotes #22
Busy would be an understatement for the past week or so and I think we’re all quite happy to get a rest being back at work.