Gush

Analytical thoughts on art, technology and digital design. I currently work in the Milwaukee area as a Creative Director.

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A couple Windows 8 UI concepts 

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Web Scroll Capture

The snazziest way to capture full page mobile websites and mobile email!

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Love this free tool to create Sprites for fast and light code

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Handy tool to determine breaking points in responsive web layout

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A handy site with forum. Paypal cust support gets my thumbs up as usual.

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It will be interesting to see if ios upgrade has rationale for the lack of visual consistency across its iconography. An icon family is a family and should maintain something...unless its got some compelling reason to be different.

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Meryl Streep turned 64 over the weekend, but she hasn’t stopped being amazing. 

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Love her attitude!

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I have been using Prezi lately for my techmorsel.com presentations - sharing the news, tools and facts about parental controls. It played great on my projector and I was able to present for about an hour to the parents at a local school, on behalf of my consulting company, techmorsel.com. What was originally a linear Powerpoint was transformed into a presentation that kept everyone engaged! Keep me in mind for future presentations you may need or visit artichokemedia.com.

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Curb appeal : your website, brand or experience.

Over the past year i have been very pleased with a site called fivesecondtest.com. Go figure its free! since i rebel against most subscription models (except for adobe, phonegap and lynda) and I'm delighted in finding a effective work tool. Along with providing website design and mobile apps I solve design problems on a daily basis. With my design process comes a lot of internal desire to connect my point of view with the outside world and this site lets you test the curb appeal of your design. It gives you an instant, 5-second perception by the design public. You simply post a screenshot of your design work, ask users questions about it and select how many people you want to review your stuff. Invaluable since sometimes they tell you what you don't want to hear. And that's a good thing that even the best designers need.

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Grocery checkout rant

Anyone ever consider for a moment... how awkward the checkout process is at a grocery store? squeezing even a thin frame between a cart and a person and then reaching over while straining your back to reach all those cans/items? For pete sake can we THINK TWICE about these conventions that have been with us FOREVER?

Add that to my list of annoying conventions that people never seem to evolve innovation with. Annoyed.

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An idea blooming

For a events side product called "Pretty Map" (TBD of course). What this website (and/or integrated service) would do is answer a common user need. Anyone ever get married or have a nice party? Everyone needs a way to create a nice looking, simplified black and white map of your location and event directions. Preferably without hiring an expensive graphic designer (haha). Using Google Maps API and creating drawable layers would allow users to view, edit and tweak their own high-quality, event-ready map. I think it deserves a place in the market and am working on a prototype.

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Ever want to publish your presentation to multiple devices? well...I've been busy beta testing Influence app - a tool to help you do it! http://influenceapp.com. Don't get me wrong it's not an app that will help you edit your slides like Powerpoint. It's really a tool for exporting your presentation slides for ideal viewing on these different devices. I can see why these tools allow you to easily focus on messaging, and leave the technical details behind. 

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Very dangerous

I'm a little worried - I received an email with the first ever icon embedded in the subject line. I can just see this getting out of hand fast!

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'Found dog', acrylic 3"x3"on canvas This painting I used Q-tips to capture a spontaneous moment. Using q-tips was reminiscent of the stipple/ pen and ink drawings I used to do. I liked the way I could overlap dots to create more dynamic color and the control of the tip was much greater than a paintbrush. When looking at it your eye almost completes the forms created by an organic pattern of the dots.