May 2009

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Tomorrow morning I’m headed off to London for a month. After my first trip out there I thought that not only would it be good to return, but that I’d prefer to stay there awhile and have days that are spent just living abroad rather than sight-seeing (that’s not to say that I’m not going to be finding myself in the museums much of the time). Though I’m realizing that a month is perhaps not quite long enough for this, I’m considering this trip a trial run, as there are so many other places I’d like to check out (some, perhaps, less expensive). Hopefully I can strike a good balance between time in the flat doing freelance and time around town expanding my visual vocabulary.

Once again I’ve neglected my blog. I could, of course, outline some professional reasons for this— occupied with clients, travel, in progress with portfolio projects— but, in truth, I’ve just been lazy about it and haven’t taken the time to organize my thoughts and experiences into an interesting and germane post.

I’ve had the opportunity to work on some product icons with the Omniture UXD team lately. Posted is a small sampling of icons I worked on and a portion of a screenshot for the product with a couple of them implemented.

Honestly, I enjoyed these icon projects, though there are some in the various sets that have a trick of telling the story in the succinctness of the icon, particularly if the function is uncommon to the user vernacular. To me, there are some icons that are simply not going to be able to fully communicate a complicated or specialized new action without mouse-over text, but should make sense within the set after that blank has been filled in.

 

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