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Adobe Creative Suite is no longer a product. It's a service. What was once just an option, will become the only way to access the Adobe Creative Suite family of applications come 17 June. Creative Suite (CS) will officially be replaced by Adobe Creative Cloud (CC), a subscription-based service with all the bells and whistles that come with the cloud.Announced at Adobe's MAX conference, and received with mixed reactions across social media platforms, the move marks Adobe's official shift from ...
The future of furniture is approaching fast as designer Carl de Smet from Noumenon plans on manufacturing a foam chair which can be compressed to five percent of its original size. This initiative works with polyurethane shape-memory polymers (SMPs) to compress chairs and other pieces of furniture into flat slabs that can be easily stowed and moved until they are ready to be used.The polymers are the key chemical compound in the manufacturing of the fixtures. Smet makes these ...
All tech giants seem to be redesigning and creating newer, smarter campuses. Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo have been undergoing changes to their employees’ work spaces by engineering a ‘smarter’ work environment that could increase creativity and productivity. "Smart buildings will become smart cities," Microsoft's Darrel Smith says. "And smart cities will change everything." Many companies rely on what is called ‘living buildings’ having designed the structure in order to promote as many chance meetings as possible in order to ...
As it stands, we have moved through a few core paradigms in terms of how we interact with computers and software. From the earliest days of physical levers and punchcards, through text (DOS etc.), onto the GUI and windows/Mac OS type interfaces, and recently now touch, gesture and voice. These last three have signaled a major shift towards a more natural way of interacting -- making use of the kinds of behaviours we understand intuitively, either because we have evolved ...
While most hail it the future of web development, the concept has received its fair amount of skepticism. Regardless of your stand point on the subject, responsive web design is making tidal waves in the web development world. But before you jump into the sea of fluid grids and media queries, or pay someone to do it for you, let’s help you get a decent understanding of the concept first.What is responsive web design and what is it about?Responsive ...
Enterprise data warehouses (also known simply as data warehouses) are similar to what existed before we had computers, when there were central filing systems. These filing systems of yesteryear got information from several sources ensured that this was properly managed for efficient storage as well as retrieval, and delivered information to several sources for the purpose of analysis. Now these systems helped reduce data duplication and to a large extent did eliminate problems with regard to finding lost files. ...
Among the cynicism and complaining that usually accompanies conferences of its size, SXSW manages to deliver a healthy dose of inspiration. Tina Roth Eisenberg gave a keynote address that quickly became one of this year's highlights. Growing up in mountainous Switzerland, and being influenced by renowned Swiss design and "a lot of fresh air", Eisenberg moved to New York and began establishing various businesses despite the uncertainty that surrounded the onset of her life in the Big Apple.Often referred ...
The term “responsive design” is being bantered all around the online community at the moment as the ultimate technology solution to dealing with multiple screen sizes and resolutions across mediums like desktop and mobile and is being confusingly associated with the use of HTML5.Firstly, we need to separate the terms responsive design and HTML5 as they are not mutually exclusive. Responsive design is a methodology, not a technology, whereas HTML5 is one possible enabler to perform responsive design but it ...Everybody seems to be an expert when it comes to web design.If you are tasked with maintaining or redesigning your website, then be warned: everyone will have an opinion, and most will insist that their opinion is correct. Most people tend to think that the way they use a website, is the way all people use it. I think it’s human nature to think that way. Someone once said that there are as many opinions in a room as there ...
As clients set ever-tougher objectives to judge the effectiveness of their digital properties, agencies need to constantly revise their strategies to ensure that they can meet and exceed the expectations to retain these relationships.It is easy to focus on results at the end of the development process -- pull some reports and produce the odd insight to justify the budget the client spends on analytics -- but it’s a whole lot harder to design and develop with results in mind ...
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