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5 Awesome Design and Development Resources (May 2013)
Each and every month we present you with the latest, greatest resources for digital creatives from around the web. Which is why we call this feature: Digital Creative Resource Roundup!
Here’s your roundup for May, otherwise known as National Bike Month.
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Check Out the Webby Award Winners!
While we were celebrating our 2nd Anniversary yesterday, the World Wide Web was also celebrating its anniversary (20 years to be exact), and our friends the Webbys were announcing their 2013 Webby winners, People’s Voice winners, and the other nominees.
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10 Tips for Designing Mobile UX
The folks over at UK digital experience company Red Ant have this nice blog post on how to design better mobile experiences. The author, Alex Sbardella, refers quite a bit to apps (he is, after all, their Mobile Products Manager), but he points out his advice applies just as well to mobile sites.
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Vote to Give Your Favorite Site a Webby!
It’s that time once again for the Webby Awards, and for YOU to vote for your favorite site, video, and app to receive a People’s Voice Award.
Unencumbered by an Electoral College or annoying clinging chads, the People’s Voice process guarantees winners will not be duking it out in Florida to determine who’s really number one.
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See 16 Years Worth of Amazing Websites
According to our friends at the Webbys, the Internet is now “approximately one yotabyte, or one quadrillion gigabytes. It would take 11 trillion years to download and surf the entire thing.” In interest of time (yours and ours), they’ve created an amazing Winners Gallery and Archive, beautifully designed in collaboration with—gasp—Internet Explorer.
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5 Awesome Design and Development Resources (March 2013)
Each month we present you with the latest, greatest resources for digital creatives from around the web. Which is why we call this feature: Digital Creative Resource Roundup! Check out five great ways to make you (almost) forget your St. Paddy’s Day hangover.
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Webby Connect Hangout: Social Mobile Technology
Join The Webby Awards president, David-Michel Davies when he hosts a G+ Hangout with two digital thought leaders in the Social Mobile realm.
Richard Ting (EVP and Executive Creative Director at R/GA)
Jeff Moriarty (VP of Digital at The Boston Globe)
It’s gonna be good. We’ll be there (of course!) and so should you!
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The Importance of Multi-Device Web Design from @lukew
Listen to former chief design architect at Yahoo! and author of Mobile First, Luke Wroblewski talks about the explosion of web-enabled devices and how designers, developers, and everyone else in the web world need to work to get to a world where one design works across all screens.
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How to Help Your Parents Understand UI and UX
Thought we’d post this on the heels of spending a lot (too much? Nah, not too much...) time with our families.
Bassett & Partners created this great video showing how UX and UI design is a part of the objects we use every day - phones, games, Facebook - and how it’s poised to change the world we live in the coming years.
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Webby Connect Talent Spotlight: Mobile App Developer Matt Keefe
For this installment of our Webby Connect series we’re spotlighting a talent expert in the mobile app world.
Founder & CEO of web and mobile application development studio PixelBit, Matt Keefe has spent the last 10+ years helping companies of all sizes, including Fortune 100 global brands, launch better web and mobile experiences.
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Poll your friends. Mobile Expert Luke Wroblewski Shows You How [VIDEO]
Probably most well known as the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Bagcheck and as An Event Apart’s go-to guy for compelling workshops like "Designing for Mobile & Beyond", the amazingly prolific Luke Wroblewski apparently found some spare time to create a really cool social mobile side project.
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SXSW 2013: March is closer than you think!
If you’re planning on attending SXSW (that’s “South by Southwest” for the uninitiated), but you haven’t done anything about it yet, you’d better kick it into high gear. Even though the interactive, music, and film communities won’t be making the long trek to Austin until March, hotel rooms are already booking up.
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The 5 Most Beautiful and Inspirational Apps
We asked you (via Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter) and all our staff, “What’s the most beautiful app available?”, and thanks to you, we’re here to share 5 lovely, inspiring apps with the rest of the world.
What really shocked us wasn’t the 5 winners, but the sheer number of stunning apps that people love.
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Internet Week Europe (IWE 2012) is Coming!
This year we’re proud once again to sponsor Internet Week Europe in London on the 12 -16 of November. We’re also ecstatic to be hosting a Portfolio Review Day at our London Vitamin T office from 1 to 5pm on 13 November. It’s free!
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Connect with Webby Connect for the Latest Digital Trends
Consider Webby Connect your one-stop institute of higher learning for some cool digital trends curated by the experts at the Webby Awards. And some pretty cool stuff from us too, of course!
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Get More Jobs with the Aquent Heads Up App
If you’re a Vitamin T | Aquent talent and you haven’t checked out our Heads Up app, you’re missing out.
Quite literally, if you’re looking for cool jobs.
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Play Our Facebook Creative Intelligence Quiz!
It’s the new, cool, free game that has all the creative kids talking. Know what year the Apple II was introduced? Or the correct way to write a JavaScript array? Or the name of the very first social network? Then try your hand at our Creative Intelligence Quiz on Facebook!
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Social Mobile Talent Spotlight: Interactive Developer Matthew Wallace
Mobile is a game changer. No one knows that better than developer Matthew Wallace. With more than 8 years of experience creating user interfaces primarily around the Flash platform (for Aquent | Vitamin T clients as well as Adobe, Infrared5, and Driftlab), Matthew’s most recent work now has him knee-deep in the world of mobile development.
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Tweet your Buddy a Beer in Real Time
At this year’s SXSW many of us got an ad on our hotel room key cards to Tweet-a-Beer to one of our newfound friends (of which we made many).
Yes, you read that right, Tweet-a-Beer.
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SoLoMoCo EXPLAINED
For many people, SoLoMoCo sounds like a wacky offshoot of the slow-food movement. Or a part of NYC that’s so incredibly hip that even the people living there had no idea it existed. Sadly, it’s neither. For an in-depth explanation, check out our video of Schneider Mike as he gives the LoDo on SoLoMoCo.
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Hot or Not Jobs: What’s Trending for Interactive
Since we’re always getting asked this question, we reached out to our stellar Vitamin T agents to find out the hottest jobs they’re working on RIGHT NOW. We knew you’d appreciate a timely snapshot, what with interactive trends changes so quickly and all!
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Holy Smokes! Facebook Buys Instagram!
Honestly, we didn’t see it coming (and we’re still reeling from the news)—shocker because we’re online from our first spoonful of cereal flakes until that last sleepy move on Words with Friends.
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How Interactive Will Save Your Life [Webby University VIDEO]
We’re not joking around with that title—as we become more sedentary and heavier (not you personally, we as a society), the declining health of Americans has become a major issue in the medical industry and politics alike.
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An Event Apart Video: Luke Wroblewski’s Mobile First!
You already know (if you’re not entirely new to this site) what huge fans we are of An Event Apart. Such huge, nerdy fans, in fact, that we’re proudly sponsoring all seven events this year from Atlanta to San Francisco.
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SXSW is HERE (and Streaming Live!)
The Vitamin T team is on the ground in Austin and ready for action at SXSW Interactive.
If you’re at the event, be sure to look for (and ride in!) one of the mirthful, yet hopefully speedy Vitamin T branded pedicabs. Scan the QR code on the back and then go pick up a cool free t-shirt at our booth #722.
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The Cashless Society (Webby University VIDEO)
It’s not that we don’t like cash money (we do!), it’s just that today’s technology makes it so easy to do without, and well, we like that much more.
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SXSW Update #2
POP QUIZ: Remember when we told you last week that SXSW Interactive was a mere 8 weeks away. So guess how far away it is this week? (Yes it’s math, but it’s easy math.)
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SXSW is Rapidly Approaching!
Holy smokes, SXSW Interactive is a mere 8 weeks away!
Which means if you have tickets, the planning part of your brain should be kicking into high gear right about now (and if you don’t have tickets, it’s time to switch to panic mode).
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The Top 10 Best of the Best of the Best Lists
Everyone loves a great “best of” list, right? Problem is, there are so MANY out there, especially this time of year (i.e., 10 Best Cats Flushing Toilets Videos, 10 Best New TGIF’s Appetizers, Best Ashton Kutcher Tweets of the Year), that it’s fairly easy to get lost.
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Build Your Digital Creative Team with our Team Builder!
You can imagine, as a creative talent agency, how often we get calls from clients who need help building digital creative teams, what with technology changing literally every day.
(If you just imagined “a lot”, give yourself two points.)
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Where will your skills take you?
The world of a digital creative is a heck of a lot like a video game.
Navigating through increasingly difficult levels, picking up new skill sets, wearing different hats, battling zombies, stealing cars and rising through the ranks of an organized crime ring...
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Vitamin T Starter Upper
With all the startups we’ve been seeing of late, one might get the impression that creating them is as simple as coming up with a grammatically questionable name and a sweet logo. In truth, you need so much more than that; employees, for instance.
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A few interesting reads in mobile marketing
Interested in mobile marketing? We are too! Here’s a roundup of a few interesting articles we’ve come across that show how mobile marketing is changing - and why it should be part of your overall marketing plan.
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10 Great Apps for Managing Freelancers
We know you’re organized, but managing freelance creative talent can test even the most organized among us. From teaching them the ropes to sharing information to keeping deadlines front and center, it’s a full-time job. But fear not, because there’s an app for that (many apps, in fact) to make your job easier. We’ve scoured the web and come up with 10 great apps to help you manage creative freelancers.
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What makes for a stellar mobile application developer?
The ubiquity of mobile devices has sent businesses clamoring to hire mobile app developers to extend their brand to iPhones, iPads, Droids, and other mobile devices. But how do you know you have found a terrific mobile app developer?
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Aquent launches new division Vitamin T
Aquent, the global leader in marketing and design staffing, is excited to announce the launch of its new division, Vitamin T, making it easier than ever to connect design-minded companies with exceptional digital creative talent for contract assignments.
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Top digital marketing trends to capitalize on now
Yesterday I bought cat litter and saw the company’s Facebook page listed on the side of the bag. Seriously? Unless they’re going to change the litter box for me, I’m not going to be compelled to “like” them.
This drove home a point made by author Rick Mathieson about social media: Not every brand needs a Facebook page. This is the year marketers will recalibrate against all the social media hype.
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iPhone vs. Android
Creative people lean heavily toward Apple, with a whopping 62% saying Apple will be the winner of the future of mobile. In our recent survey, many respondents highlighted Apple’s superior style, design, and marketing, coupled with a visionary approach. As a long-time Apple fan, I get it. But I wonder, is Apple’s closed approach to app development the right thing?
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