Object Adjective congratulates our partners over at Sidereel on their recent acquisition by Rovi. Rovi announced that it had acquired the popular TV and movie website Sidereel.com on Tuesday. Sidereel recently surpassed 1M uniques per day and gives users access to 24,000 shows and 530,000 episodes. The acquisition by Rovi is seen as a very [...]
Posts Tagged ‘web design’
Multiple Design Directions
Objectified takes a look at singular verses multiple design directions, when presenting ideas to a client. It’s a fundamental step in being able to successfully convey an idea and a direction to a client, yet so many get it wrong. Presenting ideas to a client is really at the core of a design firm’s success [...]
Object Adjective Redesign
We’re extremely excited to announce our newly redesigned website. It’s been in the works for quite some time, but ended up getting tabled time and again, in order to serve our clients.
Well, we finally tied up the remaining loose ends and we’re thrilled to welcome you.
I promise, I will post a more detailed write up on the specific highlights, design and functional, in the new design, but for now, let me just touch on some of the key differences.
Sneak Peek: Tagged Tanakh
“Just in time for the New Year! At long last, we can share with the world a taste of the Tagged Tanakh (TT) prototype!” JPS Interactive
We spent the better half of 2009 working with JPS to develop the Tagged Tanakh prototype and at long last, we can give you a sneak peek.
Microformats DevCamp
This will be the first ever microformatsDevCamp. This is an event for authors, designers, publishers, developers and engineers building pages, sites, and tools with microformats, is just around the corner, at Automattic in San Francisco.
This is a fantastic opportunity to come out and mingle with other microformatters, learn what it’s all about and share your ideas. Come out and meet the Object Adjective team. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Change the World for Ten Bucks
Object Adjective is please to announce the launch of Change the World for Ten Bucks. Once again, Chronicle Books approached us to help them build an community website, this time to help change the world.
“We Are What We Do is a new kind of movement inspiring people to change the world one small action at a time. It’s not just politicians, institutions, and big business that change the world – it is also ordinary people like you and me.”
Tagged Tanakh
The cat is out of the bag. Last week the online Jewish newspaper, Forward, published an article about the semantic software we have been developing in stealth mode, with the Jewish Publication Society.
The project we’ve been working on with the JPS, called the Tagged Tanakh, entered the early development stage at the beginning of the year. We are now rapidly approaching our the internal prototype release and the excitement is buzzing in the air.
Alphabet Soup
The art of arranging type is perhaps one of the most important studies for a graphic designer. Typography is such a complex and sophisticated examination, you can easily lose yourself in the finer intricacies of this study. You can also amass quite an extensive personal library of type faces and spend exorbitant amounts of time hunting and sifting for the right font.
This is where font management software comes in. Or at least, that has been the idea.
Cover Your Pixels
With the increase in standard, out of the factory screen resolution for computer displays from 800px by 600px to 1024px by 768px, web designers across the internets were freed to make use of a wider canvas on which to design beautiful websites. And we loved it. This is anything but news.
However, along with these changes, a minor oversight was exploited.
Flo Braker Launches New Website
Object Adjective is pleased to announce the launch of the new website for Flo Braker Baking with Flo. Flo Braker has been teaching baking for almost thirty-five years and is a well-known baker, teacher and author in San Francisco and abroad.
Redesign: Design Notes
After 2.5 years of abuse, the time is ripe for a fresh redesign at Repeat Penguin. I’ve made little attempt to keep this undertaking private, nor to keep the reasons behind it off the internets. Let’s face it, the wallpaper was pealing, the flooring was curling up and the rooms were drafty.
It was a bit of a sprint squeezing it in, amongst client projects, side projects and general craziness, but alas, we are here and I couldn’t be more excited to share.
white space and redesign
I’ve been thinking redesign for quite some time. It’s not that I’m unhappy with my current design. It is because I’m unhappy with my current design. Well, at least with the limitations it presents and how it influences how and what I write. So, I’m thinking it’s high time to take action. Approach Approaching a [...]
An Event Apart San Francisco
It’s been a crazy and hard few weeks. Between work, film projects, family coming into town (and crashing on our floor) and the passing of my Grandmother, my mentor and my closest friend, I’ve hardly been keeping my head above water. But this week ushers in an event we have all been looking forward to [...]
The Beauty of Syndication
I find little time to address the small things that would make my life easier, but when I do, I like to get the most out of it I can. So, when I blocked off time to re-architect our website, I made sure I addressed as many of the tedious, time draining tasks tied to [...]
Hello Redesign
It’s the end of a long day, but a gratifying one none-the-less. If there ever was an excuse for neglecting one’s blog, this is most definitely it. For the past weeks (maybe even months) I’ve been working on redesigning the Object Adjective website. After many hours, many delays and many other responsibilities, I am very [...]
uniqueness in a little monster
It is a rare thing, working as a designer, to have the opportunity to brand a friend. It’s a strange concept in of itself. The idea of branding a friend is an odd one, without doubt, not to mention a challenging one. None-the-less, it can be a rewarding experience and a true test for the [...]
Got Layout?
* html body {display: none;} … I haven’t figured out why some think this hack is discriminatingGeorg position: relativity Ever wonder why applying a position: relative to an element in Internet Explorer can fix bizarre rendering problems? The standing theory, which is also a highly technical one, is that sometimes you just need to remind [...]
User Experience and the Registration Form Pt. 2
There is one common and fundamental key to good user experience, the user should never have to guess. This becomes even more important when you are asking the user to divulge personal information by creating a user account. A few months ago, I wrote an article on the importance of branding and design for registration [...]
The Conversation Goes Like This . . .
I’m not one to put myself through extensive pains finding the right title for business cards. I am a designer. I design for the web. Simple enough, right? The truth, however, is that it really isn’t. It’s a curious thing when, after all this time, the title web designer isn’t specific enough. On more than [...]
Women Who Design the Web Survey: 2007 Results – Part I
There is one thing you’re sure to learn when you conduct a survey: just how many things you did wrong. My first attempt at conducting a survey of women web designers, made clear (sometimes embarrassingly so), just how many things I hadn’t thought through very well. It’s been a learning experience. Back in late April [...]
User Experience Design: The Registration Form
I’m so accustomed to lying about personal information when I create online accounts… How many online accounts does a person need? After designing what feels like my bagillionth registration form, I have to ask the question, how many online accounts does a person need? More accurately, how many accounts can a person have before maxing [...]
We’ve been at it for a year!
One year ago, on September 6th, 2006, I made a life changing decision to leave the doldroms of the 9 to 5 and start my own design firm with my fiancée. The decision was not an easy one to make. Leaving the security of steady pay and working for a well established design firm was [...]
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