Episode 40: Andy Rutledge
ANDY RUTLEDGE (personal site, Twitter) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 40, recording today, March 3, before a live internet audience at 5by5.tv/live.
Andy is a designer, composer, author, speaker, bonsai artist, capitalist, and co-founder of Unit Interactive. Before entering the design profession, he worked for 12 years as GM of a successful retail chain. Andy writes about various topics on his own sites and he’s an occasional contributor to print and online design publications.
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The Big Web Show #40: Andy Rutledge.
Filed under: Big Web Show, Design, The Big Web Show, The Profession
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Sippey on Digital Archiving
Future generations of digital product people would benefit from this approach to digital archiving; to understand the decisions we made, the tradeoffs we had to live with, and the context in which we operated. It’s why reading Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine is still useful to us today, while spending time with the Data General Eclipse MV/8000 (if you could even get your hands on one) isn’t. In 20 years, even if you could get a page of the Huffington Post to render faithfully, it wouldn’t do much for you. But if you had archival footage of the HuffPo user experience, combined with insight into the decision making process of the design team, combined with background information on the economics of content and online advertising in 2011, along with an understanding of how Twitter and Facebook worked — that would be much more useful, and would give you a richer understanding of both the product and its context.
on archiving digital products – this is sippey.com
Filed under: "Digital Curation", Archiving, Best practices, content
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Five Milestone Font Families
FTC to investigate iTunes in-app purchases
I’m looking at you, Smurfs.
Parental complaints over iTunes App Store in-app purchases in children’s games such as “Smurfs’ Village” have prompted the Federal Trade Commission to look into the matter, according to a new report. — AppleInsider | FTC to investigate iTunes in-app purchases after receiving complaints.
Filed under: Apple, business, Design, family
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