Familiarize yourself with Rich Internet Application technologies and the best UI controls for creating your application. Rich Internet Application technology has empowered us to create really amazing user experiences. The best RIAs on the web today rely on a discreet set of UI controls to provide a lively and timely experience.

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Liquid Interactive is the proud recipient of the Best of Show award for the Bills Khakis Pub at the 2010 Greater Lehigh Valley ADDY® Awards.

Its not a matter of who wins or loses, it's how you play the game. In this post, Andrew addresses the conundrum facing many UX designers: conducting user research appears to diminish our role as an experience designer. Properly executed, though, design research makes for a valuable return on investment.

The number of applications available for User Experience professionals is ever-expanding; much of this growth happening over the last year! As a consequence, experts are increasingly turning to novel tools in order to collect data and generate reports regards their websites. We've compiled a list of some of the best and are giving discounts and licenses away to our readers.

DEMO Night gives mobile-related businesses from the Mid-Atlantic region the chance to present their products, innovations or business ideas to an audience of local and national industry experts, entrepreneurs, investors and media.

This video will not only give you self confidence as a designer. You will gain insight on ways Sagmeister finds himself through personal time, explaining the latest projects he has worked on. Adding his own perspective on branding, time, projects, and design. This is a must see for any creative individual.

Liquid Interactive, an area digital solutions company, received three Horizon Interactive Creative Awards when the organization announced the winners recently.

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Flash is powerful. Using it properly, you can create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors incredible user interaction. Although Flash is definitely not the favourite medium for usability and accessibility advocates, it has its advantages. With Flash designers can achieve results which simply aren?t possible with (X)HTML and CSS. Whether you like Flash or not, it empowers the Web with functionalities which make it an incredibly interactive medium.

With the release of Silverlight 1.0 and its subsequent versions, a debate started among designers and developers regarding choosing between Flash and Silverlight. Silverlight faces difficulties in capturing the market because of the maturity of Flash. However, Silverlight has managed to keep up by including certain features that designers and developers have always wanted to see in Flash, such as search engine optimization. In this article, we will discuss some of the technical differences between Flash and Silverlight to help you choose the technology that best suits your needs.

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Using a projection called anamorphosis to create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle, these four artists create some of the finest 3D pavement illusions we've seen. Four artist, one art.

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The subject of what separates art and design is convoluted and has been debated for a long time. Artists and designers both create visual compositions using a shared knowledge base, but their reasons for doing so are entirely different. Some designers consider themselves artists, but few artists consider themselves designers.

The best way to make work feel like not work is to do something you enjoy, and do it damn well. That?s why I'm happy to announce the newest Envato blog: WorkAwesome! As you might guess from the name, it's a site for people who want to be awesome at work. After all, if you?re going to spend eight hours a day doing something, you may as well put some heart into it!

Sep 2nd in Effects by Danny Outlaw Last time we honed in on some of the best Photoshop talent coming out of the USA and Canada. This week we turn to Asia - and since everything we learned about geography we learned from FIFA - Asia also includes Australia. Hit the jump for some sweet, sweet eye-candy!

Although there are lots of posts that evaluate different design blogs, I haven?t seen many that focus specifically on corporate websites. Therefore, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the homepages of the Top 30 technology companies (the order of this list was determined by the InfoTech 100 from Business Week), and assign them a PASS or FAIL rating based on the quality of their homepage design.

There are things that can?t be showcased too often. For instance, beautiful blog designs. We have presented hundreds of beautiful blog designs in the past and now it?s time to provide our readers with a fresh portion of tasty design inspiration.

Portfolio websites are critical for designers who want to get exposure for their work and attract new clients. While all portfolio sites will showcase the work of the designer, some have chosen to provide additional information about the project through case studies.