YouTube Chromeless Video Player – jQuery Plugin
While building the PUMA Running site, I had the opportunity to work with the YouTube JavaScript Player API to build a custom video player. This was something that we had to reuse in various places, so I made a jQuery plugin out of it (with a little help from Doug Avery to be able to add multiple videos per page). The functionality is pretty simple: you get a play/pause button, a status bar, and a mute/unmute button; but this plugin gives you control over how those things look.
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Put Your Portfolio Online
Open letter to design educators and students:
Hopefully this doesn't come across as too much of a rant. OK, OK, it is. But I only want to help. So pretend you're listening to Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes and hear me out. If you don't know who Mr. Rooney is, he's the curmudgeonly guy with wayward eyebrows and long ear hair that comes on in the last few minutes of the show. Now you know. Here's the deal. I've been seeing a lot of portfolios lately through reviews and submissions of intern candidates. It still boggles my mind how many students don't have their work online. This isn't directed just at future web designers. This plea goes out to all future design professionals.
Behind the Scenes: DwellAgent
Design Dilemma
It's time to design. You have nothing to go by. No name. No identifying mark. No color palettes or type styles to get things going. All you know is that you have to design a web application. Where do you begin?
This is exactly the situation we found ourselves in when John Lynch and Edward Johnston came to us wanting to create something to make it easier for real estate agents to manage listings and market their services.
Time was limited and there was much ground to cover. So we started with some quick naming and identity exercises alongside site maps, user flows, and wireframes. Simultaneously, we tested the waters with some stylistic concepts we call mood boards before approaching compositional design. Here are the results of that work:
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