Where Art, Design, and Technology Meet, with Brenda Long
Creator/developer of Mabell’s Zoo and Mabell’s Days available on the App Store.
Be sure to stop by LinkedIn and GitHub for most recent activities.
Mabell’s Zoo is a multi-touch experience for children available at the App Store and Google Play.
We live in an old house (150+ years) with many period characteristics: 10 inch molding, 6 panel doors, high ceilings. After installing the home’s first central heating and air we turned our attention to updating the kitchen. Some of our challenges included: a 5 inch sloping floor, a cellar door in the floor, and a Continue Reading…
I have a 3 year old and she has had an iPad for 1 year. Computers and phones are my working tools, so it was not an option to encourage her to use them. Also, I did not like the thought of this active and highly mobile little person sitting in a chair with a Continue Reading…
The design for a recent WordPress website required great emphasis on images and the respective thumb-nail. The project was for a portrait artist to showcase his works. Under normal circumstances WordPress crops a thumbnail from the center of an image. This works great in most situations. Portraits however, usually focus the face in the upper Continue Reading…
Please don’t “Click Here”. I believe good interactive design should provide clues and information to guide the user. A link with a strong call to action and the conventional link color change usually works well. Buttons should have a “touch me” appearance to entice users to interact. This can be accomplished by referring to the Continue Reading…
Inspiration comes from many places. The illustrations by Eric Carle, author of various childrens’ books like the “Hungry Caterpillar” and “Where’s My Cat” inspired me to create some animals. Eric has short demonstrations and videos on his website explaining his process and encouraging you to make a mural, too. Using the paints I had available Continue Reading…
Test your memory.
An experiment with HTML5 and the Canvas element
