*Canux is the Canadian user experience workshop that is hosted by nForm.
My name is Niamh Redmond. I’m from Dublin, Ireland. On December 28th 2009, I am moving to Vancouver, Canada. At the end of 2008, I made a number of tough decisions. I decided to resign from my job, to reassess my career direction and to begin the process of applying for a Canadian visa. It wasn’t easy to do and I struggled with defining what path I wanted to take in my career and where I wanted to go in order to gain more experience. Each option that I considered kept coming back to a common theme – creating a great user experience.
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By Niamh Redmond • September 3rd, 2009 • 4 Comments »
Photo by collinmel (cc)
Last week I attended an Arduino and Flash workshop, hosted by Ben Arent/ CASL on behalf of the IxDA Dublin. The cost of the workshop included a fully loaded Arduino kit loaded with resistors, sensors and switches from SKPang. So plenty to experiment with afterwards. Read the rest of this entry »
By Niamh Redmond • August 19th, 2009 • No Comments »
I really like this simple but elegantly designed site copypastecharacter.com (⌘C ⌘V Character) by Martin Ström and Konst & Teknik, a graphic design office based in Stockholm, Sweden, that deals with “art, technology and things in between”.
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By Niamh Redmond • July 29th, 2009 • No Comments »
On June 12th, 2009 I attended the first TEDxDublin event, which was organised by Aaron Quigley and hosted by the Science Gallery.
The previously recorded TED talks that were show at the event were:
- - Pattie Maes on the Sixth Sense. TED Link
- - Robert Full on Learning from the gecko’s tail. TED Link
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By Niamh Redmond • July 20th, 2009 • No Comments »
FITC (Flash in the Can) is one of the largest and longest running events for the design and technology community. The 2009 Toronto event celebrated what it means to “live, think and play outside the lines” this year, with three days packed full of inspiring sessions focused on the art and craft of interactive design and technology.
Interestingly, the “Flash in the Can” name is a reference to Adobe’s Flash software and CAN – taken from Canada. The inaugural festival previously focused strictly on Flash. However, the scope of events has broadened to include motion design, creative inspiration, mobile and gaming technologies as well as other forms of interactive and digital media technologies such as Flex, Air and others.
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By Niamh Redmond • July 10th, 2009 • 3 Comments »
