Twitter Type Experiment: Almost Ready for the Real World!

KCAILearningTypography4

March 23rd, 2012 • 10:59am

I’ve reached some milestones in the past couple of weeks: Auto-reload works! And it even fixes itself when the network connection bugs out! (I used a heavily modified chunk of code from WPMayor.com, in case you were curious.) Auto-reloading broke the animations, so I created a solution for when that happens. In addition to reloading  Read More

Twitter Experiment Live Test

KCAILearningTypography4

March 9th, 2012 • 12:25pm

A live version of my Twitter experiment can be found here. http://erikagoering.com/t4/ As always, I appreciate any feedback, comments, concerns, criticism, and/or suggestions you might have.

Twitter Process

KCAILearningTypography4

March 6th, 2012 • 5:02pm

I’ve spent some time refining every aspect of my Twitter experiment. I’ve refined the aesthetics and readability by increasing the contrast between the background and the tweets. I’ve added a subtle drop shadow to the “inactive” and “flyout” words, while the “impressions” now have an embossed effect. One of the more recent tweets has more  Read More

Turning Data in to Information

Information ArchitectureKCAILearningRead&Respond

February 22nd, 2012 • 10:32am

Response to Wurman reading. One thing that we all have to deal with, now more than ever, is the over-saturation of data. We can easily get immersed in it, without ever gaining any actual useful information from it. It’s our jobs as designers (and information architects) to take those sloppy chunks of data and sculpt them  Read More

Twitter Type: jQuery Sources & Process

KCAILearningTypography4

February 20th, 2012 • 1:22pm

• 3D “Tag Cloud” style animation • 3D flying text animation   While trying the flying text thing, I broke it. Everything loaded too quickly, and I ended up with it all overlaying each other. Still pretty cool, though. So I figured I’d share it.