Tag: design

Email Design: How to Improve Customer Engagement

July 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Why is a good email design important? A well-designed newsletter is key to your email marketing success. A high-quality design can highlight your calls to action, prioritize your content and ensure you are instantly recognized in the inbox. Designing for email however is quite different to designing for the web, print or any other medium. Emails aren’t like complex websites or graphic heavy posters; they should be nicely designed but somewhat basic. This will make it easy for your subscribers to open, engage and click. Here are five essential tips to making sure your email campaigns are a success. Stay on-brand Most people, before they engage with an email, they want to see who it’s from. They will see your graphics first. …

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Email Design: How to Improve Customer Engagement

Guide Install Xcode 6 on Windows 7 or Windows 8, 8.1, For Testing Purpose

July 13, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

With the release of Xcode 6 by Apple, I’m sure most of us would be loving to install and test it on testing environment. How about installing Xcode 6 on Windows PC? There is no way available to install it on Windows directly since it doesn’t support Windows OS platform. This guide shows you how to install Xcode 6 on Windows 7 or Windows 8,8.1 with virtual machine using VMware workstation. So, you must have a working Mac OS X virtual machine already on your Windows computer to use this method. Xcode 6 introduces new way of designing and building Mac OS and iOS applications with innovative programming language Swift. As of now, only registered Apple App developers can download the latest release. Xcode 6 can coexist with earlier Xcode 5 version, so…

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Guide Install Xcode 6 on Windows 7 or Windows 8, 8.1, For Testing Purpose

WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 preview

July 13, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

WordPress announced its latest version of the popular CMS yesterday with the release of WordPress 4.0 Beta 1. Let’s take a look into the new features that it has highlighted. Previews of embedding via URLs This works well in the beta version, the guys at WordPress suggest adding the embed URL on a new line, in 3.9.1 this just leaves a link in the editor whereas in 4.0 this shows the video. This is instantaneous and a flick to the code view of the editor still shows the link URL. You can even watch the video from within the editor. Below we have 4.0 Beta 1 on the left and 3.9.1 on the right. Media library You now have the option to have the media gallery in a grid view as well as …

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WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 preview

Homemade Speakers

July 6, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I had the awesome opportunity of taking the EE423 Speaker Design class offered at USC while I was going to school there. The class is taught by engineers from JBL, with some help from people like Tom Holman (the TH in THX guy!), who happens to be a researcher at USC. I learned a lot about speaker design, and ended up with a pretty awesome pair of bookshelf monitor speakers. The speakers use Vifa TC14SG49-04 5.5â€³ midwoofers and Peerless 53 NDT Neodymium 1â€³ tweeters. The inital boxes were prototyped in cardboard. Despite looking absolutely terrible, using 3 layers of sandwiched cardboard actually works extremely well in terms of audio response. Here you can see a diagram showing the 200-10 khz response (tweeter is thin line, midwoofer is thicker…

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Homemade Speakers

The Science of Happy Design

July 3, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

So much of the news about technology tells us that websites, mobile apps, and social media are bad for us. Supposedly, technology makes us anxious, our smartphones take us out of the present moment, and social media ensnares us in a dopamine loop. A Google search of “happiness and technology” pulls up hundreds of articles about how technology is making us miserable. Can that be true? What if instead, the design of a favorite website or a trusted mobile app might make us happy – and influence our long-term actions? Happy, But Not an Accident As someone who attempts to make experiences with technology better, it makes me sad to think that my work might be making people unhappy. There has been some research to show …

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The Science of Happy Design