BTC Insight » Web http://blog.btclogic.com The BTC Logic Team Blog Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:27:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Art Imitating Life: New Design Trends for the Web http://blog.btclogic.com/art-imitating-life-new-design-trends-for-the-web/ http://blog.btclogic.com/art-imitating-life-new-design-trends-for-the-web/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:52:48 +0000 Renee http://blog.btclogic.com/?p=112 Like a lot of others, I read the 2010 predicted web design trends, from both a designer’s and developer’s point of view.  At first, I thought that most of these creations were designer driven; site designs using bold graphics, large typography, magazine layouts and edgy artistic styles, and trendy technologies like rich media and mashup capable applications developers are enjoying coming up with.  But after watching how these new trends were being implemented, I realized that they are actually stemming from the evolving needs of companies competing for internet eyeballs.  With corporations progressively vying for search engine status and [...]]]> http://blog.btclogic.com/art-imitating-life-new-design-trends-for-the-web/feed/ 0 A thought provoking response to the iPad http://blog.btclogic.com/a-thought-provoking-response-to-the-ipad/ http://blog.btclogic.com/a-thought-provoking-response-to-the-ipad/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:05:21 +0000 Charlton http://blog.btclogic.com/?p=100 http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/359224392/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been

This is a well thought-out perspective in terms of *usage*. Steve’s positions on the “New World” use model and its pervasiveness are rather valid. That is a good thing – we would have very different lives if compute power were still in the hands of “Old World” IT. Despite all the advantages of an “Old World” experience where one needed to know how things worked from the inside out, it greatly limited the applicability and accessibility of computing to relatively few. If you wanted to use a PC in the “Old World”, you either needed to know how one worked rather [...]]]> http://blog.btclogic.com/a-thought-provoking-response-to-the-ipad/feed/ 2