Our passion for our industry keeps us deeply immersed in the technology and design communities. Here’s a sample of what we’re thinking and inspired by.
I am excited to finally show off a little UX iPad iPhone appliation that the UX team here at Univer…
When thinking about a consumer app that everyone can relate to, and which employs a multi-device st…
I’ve been working with Spring 3.0 a good bit lately. One of the things that I’ve really enjoyed w…
2007. That’s the last time we saw any true innovation in mobile hardware. That’s the year that th…
A couple of weeks ago, Adobe launched an AIR application called Adobe Enterprise Cafe: The Adobe E…
IÕll be making the trip to Toronto for FITC Mobile 2010, IÕll be giving a talk on ̶...
Insurers and reinsurers alike are always on the lookout for tools that can provide them better pred…
Velocity 2010 is a wrap. In case you are not familiar with Velocity, this was its 3rd year. ...
We at Universal Mind are starting our Multi Device initiative showcasing enterprise applications wi…
Ok, I admit it, I used a sensational subject line. So what. Google is really the new evil, well w…
It appears that google has been integrating the release of Caffeine (now Kaffein) gradually. Start…
Every couple of years I have to stop and shake my head at how damn cyclical (and cynical) this bus…
This year I was part of the advisory board for the RIA track of CF.Objective(). I was also invi…
(Note: My colleague, David Tucker, has joined me in helping to author this post since we put on o…
On May 7th, Flash Camp Seattle will be held in the Adobe offices in Seattle. One of the sessions w…
Although business goals are drastically different from one organization to the other, it’s lo…
Our own Doug McCune, SpatialKey engineer extraordinaire, will be presenting a session about Crisis ...
The Capital Flash Camp is a full-day event focusing on the Adobe Flash Platform. Enhance your skil…
Swiz 1.0 has introduced the ability to create your own custom metadata processors. Although the 1.0…
Tom Link, Universal Mind CTO, presented the company’s “state of the business” at ...
A colleague forward me the link to a great IBM ad that encapsulates what businesses are dealing wit…
Every now and then someone expresses frustration with the fact that Swiz, and every other Flash Pla…
Flash Camp is coming to Washington, DC on April 16th. It will be a full day of great content on to…
I will be heading to SxSW at the end of the week and look forward to chatting with some other UX f…
Similar to Yahoo ySlow, Google labs provides “Page Speed” in their “Labs” section of “Site Performa…
Google labs provides “Page Speed” in their “Labs” section of webmaster tools with trends and a…
I recently noticed a thoughtful bit of User Experience while using my windshield wipers. Like most ...
If you’re an Atlanta area (or even Macon / Augusta / Chattanooga area) developer and want to learn ...
AS3-Signals is a recent project by Robert Penner as an alternative to Flash PlayerÕs native e…
Our parent company, Universal Mind, was tasked by the Colorado Department of Education and Center f…
Now that we’ve rolled out thematic mapping by state, county, and zip code in SpatialKey, you ...
Gomez is the leader in Web Performance Monitoring. This 2 minute explainer lends great insig…
We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words. Images from Tiananmen Square, September 11th,...
“We’ve become a culture of technicians. We’re all into the how of it and nobody’s stepping back an…
We’ve just launched new thematic mapping features in SpatialKey that let you create maps of y…
We’re just over a week away from Flash Camp Phoenix and tickets are almost sold out. If you’re in…
How much is your page LOAD TIME costing you ? Gomez (Compuware) just launched a calculation tool. ...
In the past year, I’ve been witness to a dramatic shift in how we deliver solutions to our clients….
We made it past the holidays. Some on-line retailer’s “got it” and some did not. &nbs;...
A few months ago, I started a project to make a framework for ColdFusion to enable its functionali…
One clear Google philosophy is that “form” never comes before function, and that FAST is king over ...
This is a great presentation by Marissa Mayer (Google) on optimizing for speed, and evaluating how ...
This past Friday, I gave a presentation, “UX For The Development-Minded” at RIA Unleashed. It went…
Holiday retail madness is coming at us fast. Is your site ready? Over the y…
Brian put on a great event this past Friday at Bentley University. The attendance was more than mo…
Another dataset that the city of San Francisco makes publicly available is the Department of Buildi…
The Velocity 2009 “Web Performance and Operations” conference took place in San Jose this year on J…
Assuming that brand reputation is important, every company must maintain some level of brand reputa…
I have worked with internet technologies since long before the the WWW gained household adoption. ...
So I finally started my own library to contribute back to the community. I’ll be adding some…
The Sacramento Police Department makes their dispatch database publicly available via monthly text ...
Leveraging LCDS 3.0 with Flex 4.0, Hibernate & MateTake a look at what LiveCycle Data Services ...
We partner with MapQuest for our basemaps. Today, they announced new map styles and imagery improv…
This example is based on the previous post but instead uses a “DataServiceManager” Class to handle ...
I wrote a simple Flex 4.0 application that shows how to use Mate & the Presentation Model pattern a…
In case you missed the MAX Session, here is the link to watch the presentation…http://tv.adobe.co…
Cities are opening up and providing access to data as part of an initiative to improve the accessib…
We’re excited to be at the first International Crisis Mapping Conference in Cleveland, OH for…
As many of you know, Universal Mind grew from the ashes of Macromedia Consulting. At the time, th…
Passive View is another presentation pattern that can be used to increase the testability of graphi…