Wacom introduces Inkling, a new digital sketch pen that captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper.

Entry level position Graphic Designer for Fashion Industry
Looking for a technical garment illustrator. The applicant should have recent Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop experience and posses good illustration skills.
Graphic designer skills and creativity are an asset and so is apparel industry experience. The applicant will be required to work in a fast and exciting environment.
If you are interested and fit the above criteria, please email your resume to tony@mondetta.comby Sept. 15. Only interested applicants will be contacted by Sept. 30/11.

There are some excellent tutorial videos from Adobe on some of the new features of Flash CS5.5 – in addition to the ones I mentioned from Lynda.com – I will be posting some of these and going over these features in my evening course this fall. Finally Flash and HTML5 are getting along and you can create Flash content for iPad and other iOS devices easily…!

Part 1 – Chapters 1 through 6

Apple’s iOS Human Interface Guidelines describes the guidelines and principles that help you design an amazing user interface and user experience for your iOS app. I’ve been reading Apple’s iOS Human Interface Guidelines (to download the PDF, see the top right corner of this linked page on the Apple developer website). It’s a great read for anyone who wants to start designing an app, I highly recommend giving it a look through.
However, if you’ve been a designer for a number of years already, and especially if you have your own iPhone or iPad, there are quite a few things that will probably be common knowledge to you already in terms of both design and usability.

I decided for the designers out there who don’t have time to read ALL of Apple’s guidelines and PDFs for designing the perfect app (that’s pretty much everyone) I’d come up with a short, point form summary of the full 156 page iOS Human Interface Guidelines PDF. Enjoy!

Sizes:

iPhone 4: 640 x 960px (and vice versa)
buttons: 44 x 44px
iPad: 1024 x 768px (and vice versa, buttons 88 x 88px)

Users / Target:

Determine the main purpose of the App.

Create an App definition statement:

Determine who your target is and what the main function of your App is, and how it benefits them. Continue reading ‘iOS Human Interface Guidelines summary’

Hi everyone, it’s been a long while since my last post – I’ve been on a 6 week trip to Central America, but I’m back and into work mode again so I hope to start getting some new information to you again.
Please feel free to pass on this job ad.
It’s for a Senior Multimedia Application Developer Position – please see link for job ad details.
Also please pass this on to anyone you know who may qualify or be interested. Thanks!