http://www.barbariangroup.com/employees/anthony_dines.xml The latest posts by Anthony Dines on TheBarbarianGroup.com en-us <p>Do you design web non-sense? Do you build real world tools? If the things you build in life require at some point for someone to interact with it, at some point you are going to have to educate the user how to perform some necessary actions. It is our job as designers to not only make powerful and efficient “tools”, be they websites or awesome power drills, just as important is guiding the user to success without patronizing their intelligence.</p> <p> <a href="http://orderedlist.com/our-writing/blog/articles/stop-being-an-idiot/" target="_blank">This article</a> does a pretty great job at summing up the concept of walking a fine line of simplicity, personality and intuitiveness in web design.</p> anthony@barbariangroup.com(Anthony Dines) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:02:28 -0500 http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/5072-rule_1_of_interactivity_guide_your_users_with_simplicity http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/5072-rule_1_of_interactivity_guide_your_users_with_simplicity <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9084072&#38;server=vimeo.com&#38;fullscreen=1&#38;show_title=1&#38;show_byline=0&#38;show_portrait=0&#38;color=00ADEF"<param name="quality" value="best" param=""<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" param=""<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" param=""<param name="scale" value="showAll" param=""<param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9084072&#38;server=vimeo.com&#38;fullscreen=1&#38;show_title=1&#38;show_byline=0&#38;show_portrait=0&#38;color=00ADEF" embed=""<embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9084072&#38;server=www.vimeo.com&#38;show_title=1&#38;show_byline=0&#38;show_portrait=0&#38;color=00ADEF&#38;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"</embed></object> <p>Michael Bierut of Pentagram talking about clients. If you’re a designer, you should probably watch this.</p> anthony@barbariangroup.com(Anthony Dines) Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:02:30 -0500 http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/5063-michael_bierut_of_pentagram_talking_about_clients_if http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/5063-michael_bierut_of_pentagram_talking_about_clients_if <object width="400" height="336"<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q6onIqtocqM&#38;rel=0&#38;egm=0&#38;showinfo=0&#38;fs=1"</param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"</param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"</param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q6onIqtocqM&#38;rel=0&#38;egm=0&#38;showinfo=0&#38;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent"</embed></object> <p>Cap’n Jazz reuinion show, 01/22/10: <span class="caps">UUUUHHHHHGGGGGGGGGG</span>, please please please please do more of this somewhere near where I live.</p> <p>p.s. Please also play “In The Clear” so that I can flip the hell out and have the best night ever. <span class="caps">THANKS</span>!</p> anthony@barbariangroup.com(Anthony Dines) Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:02:31 -0500 http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/5055-cap_n_jazz_reuinion_show_01_22_10_uuuuhhhhhgggggggggg http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/5055-cap_n_jazz_reuinion_show_01_22_10_uuuuhhhhhgggggggggg <div class="t_block">“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.”</div> <div class="t_block">- <em>Saul Bass, from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfDCNpaPBiA&#38;feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">this interview</a> .</em></div> anthony@barbariangroup.com(Anthony Dines) Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:02:37 -0500 http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/4994-quot_i_want_everything_we_do_to_be_beautiful_i_don_t_give_a_damn_whether_the_client_understands_that_quot http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/4994-quot_i_want_everything_we_do_to_be_beautiful_i_don_t_give_a_damn_whether_the_client_understands_that_quot <div class="t_block"><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/20/obscure-adobe-photoshop-time-savers/" target="_blank">A ton of Photoshop keyboard shortcuts that you may not have known about. <span class="caps">PRODUCTIVITY</span>!!</a></div> anthony@barbariangroup.com(Anthony Dines) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:02:32 -0500 http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/4991-a_ton_of_photoshop_keyboard_shortcuts_that_you_may_not_have_known_about_productivity http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/4991-a_ton_of_photoshop_keyboard_shortcuts_that_you_may_not_have_known_about_productivity