How not to use flash!

In a search on the web I found this blogpost. It’s about how not to use flash. Gladly enough allot of these things are known with the designers today!

1. Screen size expands to take over your monitor
2. Intro movies…….websites are no movies!
3. Form to fill out before seeing the content. Why stay in the first place!
4. Intro movie after the form. Again!!!!!
5. Background music in general, but most of the time it’s also to loud
6. Gratuitous background animation. Giving you the creaps like oldschool animated gif’s
7. Unique navigation, which let you thing
8. Pop ups in Html

Pro Bono

Not only lawyers sometimes work on Pro Bono based project. Now you can also join thousands of top marketing, IT, HR and design professionals who are making a meaningful impact by volunteering their skills and expertise in the community.
But what’s the profit then……..doing non-profit work? That question can be simply answered with ‘becoming a better designer!’.

Google……..don’t be evil………what is really true!?

What if all information in the world would be categorised and easy to look for? What if everything that’s written about in the world, the news, all books, texts, photograph and video which be collected exists there at one place in the world, and would be available everywhere? That is exactly the aim of Google, and the company will not do long before realizing that. The search engine, by means of Google Earth, well-known by means of in which all possible information is classified on geographical location. But for example also by means of Google Books, a project where Google digitises complete libraries!!!

A few months ago I allready discussed the case which I saw yesterday in this documentary with Niek Dekker, a classmate of mine. I showed him the movie ‘Google’s Masterplan‘, in which is illustrated the conspiracy theory of Google as the Big Brother of today. After hearing Google is cooperating with governments to censure certain information I really start doubting the complete neutral posture of this ‘great company to work for’!!!

Online drawing

This is a nice drawing application for online artist. I have used this to set up my concept for my school project. It is nice to see how many people are drawing using this application, because it’s only for fun. It’s not some sort of online portfolio of your best work like Deviantart. Really unbelievable how some of these folks are drawing!!! Like this one for example……….