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We’ve been quiet on the blog and news updates lately as we’ve been wrapping up a couple of great projects. I can’t believe it’s November 1st today! Anyway, in the interests of publishing *something* this month, I wanted to announce the following clients and welcome them to Eden Web and thank them for working with us too.
We are also involved in some really nice work for Dublin City Council, The National Botanic Gardens, The Office of Public Works and more…
More soon!
An open letter to Apple
I’m writing to you on behalf of millions of people who walk around wired to little tech devices and won’t leave the house without them. No, I’m not talking about the iPod — and that’s the point. While your brilliant product line enhances the lifestyle of (100) millions, I’m talking about the little devices that keep us alive, the people with chronic conditions.
Let’s talk about diabetes, the disease that affects 20 million Americans, and I’m one of them…
by Amy Tenderich
Good design is problem solving regardless of the medium. Wether it’s print, pixel or product design, the world relies on designers to bring creative and fresh ideas to new or everday problems. So when blogger Amy Tenderich posted her “Open Letter to Steve Jobs” in April imploring Apple to bring their renowned product and interface design to a device that is used by over 20 million Americans it took San Fran company, Adaptive Path to step up and have a go.
Charmr - Diabetes Management Device by Adaptive Path
Charmr - Interface designs by Adaptive Path
Here are some links
- Amy’s open letter to Steve Jobs
- How we got involved by Adaptive Path
- Video of the design concept for Diabetes Management Device (Charmr)
- Charmr interaction and visual design by Adaptive Path
Enjoy!
I’ve been working on a series of illustrations for the Biodiversity department at Fingal County Council. The 5 pieces form a series of illustrations to highlight the unique habitats found in Fingal County and will be featured on the new web site which we have also designed.
Custom illustrations are a great way to bring something unique to your web site and can really enhance content heavy websites.
I’ll upload the other illustrations later in the week and possibly a screen grab of the new website which is being designed by EdenWeb. The other illustrations in the series are for
- Coastal
- Wetlands & river corridors
- Gardens
- Woodlands, trees & hedgerows
- and Grasslands habitats.
Contact me directly for more information. All work is copyright EdenWeb>Peter Knight.
On Friday I spent a few hours at Microsoft’s European Product Development Centre in Dublin with Reeves Little previewing project Gatineau and running through some of the new features being built into their upcoming website Analytics program.
I’d been a fan (and customer) of analytics company and product, DeepMetrix for several years and was interested to see how the product had evolved since the technology was bought by Microsoft in 2006 and what exactly Microsoft had brought to the analytics mix. Reeves is part of the team in Dublin that are building some new components into the product and was kind enough to ask me over and get involved in some user testing and sign up for the upcoming BETA programme.
Congrats to Dublin photographer Derek Knight on winning a Nokia N95 in todays Irish Times Magazine Photography Compeition.
Photographers were asked to submit pictures on the theme of ‘on the beach’ and there were more than 1000 entries submitted.
Visit Derek Knight Photography for more great travel, documentary, music, corporate and commercial photography.
Stray markup or unclosed html tags are all over the modern web but I thought I was seeing things when I picked today’s printed edition of the Irish Times (yeah - they have a printed version too :O) ).
Did anyone else notice the stray XML tag in the iPhone article of the Technology supplement?
The first paragraph reads
In the US today there will be only one technology story: the iPhone [/FIRSTPAR]
Obviously, thats meant to signal the end of the First Paragraph.
Just a little thing I spotted today that made me smile a little!
Last week our local paper carried an article on Wicklow women in business. There were some interesting companies in there that I’d never come across before but it was limited to a two page feature. I started a search online for more details and happened upon a great business forum called Irish Business Women. If you’re a woman (or man) thats interested in sharing your thoughts, asking a few questions or learning something new about doing business in Ireland then drop over to www.irishbusinesswomen.com and introduce yourself.
While various ‘yays’ and ‘nays’ for blogging etiquette are doing the rounds, I have one for those who run their own Business blogs.
If you post on a competitors web site, do you have the courtesy not to add your own link? Does it matter and should you care?
Personally, I do care and therefore when posting on other designers web blogs I tend not to link back to my site. At least I shouldn’t have and won’t be any more. Just professional courtesy…
