Monthly Archives: February 2008

Director 11 – there’s life in the old dog yet

By Oliver Wrede | Published: February 21, 2008
This is a surprise: Adobe announced Director 11 – the follow-up release to Director MX 2004. After years of speculation Adobe seems to be committed to develop Director further. There is a rough comparison chart on the Adobe site which compares Director to Flash. I am not quite convinced the advantages of Director over Flash [...]
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Hobnox Audiotool – Kewl! Totally!

By Oliver Wrede | Published: February 21, 2008
Next week Hobnox will launch the first Beta version of the community website. And we will integrate Flash-based tools to manipulate a content library. Here is an appetizer… Most areas of the site will start out as closed beta and/or demos, but we want to slowly ramp up the features and the design. We have [...]
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Personas? Yes… influence group thinking!

By Oliver Wrede | Published: February 18, 2008
Jason Fried from 37signals argues against the use of Personas. Personas don’t talk back. Personas can’t answer questions. Personas don’t have opinions. Personas can’t tell you when something just doesn’t feel right. This is a pretty sketchy definition of what personas are supposed to do as a tool: The foremost reason for personas is to [...]
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John Maeda the new president of RISD

By Oliver Wrede | Published: February 18, 2008
I just learned that John Maeda is now the next president of the Rhode Island School of Design.
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