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GRASP: a Framework for Product Cycle Acceleration
GRASP is a framework for product cycle acceleration, comprising four elements: Goal, Resource Assessment, Strategy, and Plan. It aims to provide a quick overview of design and development effort, highlighting the importance of resource assessment and distinguishing between strategy and planning. The framework can be used as a complement to existing frameworks like OKRs and…
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Dieter Ram’s 10 Principles for Good Design
These have appeared in a lot of places, including Wikipedia, fluidui.com, and this rather nice version using a design of Rams’ to illustrate each point. I include them here for your reference and mine. Good design: Is innovative – Rams states that possibilities for innovation in design are unlikely to be exhausted since technological development…
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New Release: lcLipsum Plugin for LiveCode
Now available for free download is my latest LiveCode plugin: lcLipsum. It’s a Lorem Ipsum generator and tool for LiveCode users and developers. It provides text to use when mocking up layouts. What’s Lorem Ipsum? It’s the “fake Latin” that you see in mockups and preliminary layouts. (Actually, it’s not so fake. It’s an excerpt…
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Lourdes Valdes: Art Online
Miami artist Lourdes Valdes has a new site, courtesy of Charles Buchwald & Friends. This WordPress based site has an extremely clean design to keep the emphasis on Ms. Valdes paintings and let the rest of the layout disappear. Unlike the Flash based site it replaces, the design is responsive, to be easily viewable on…
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Bensire Rolls Out New Site
Bensire Carpets has been working with Charles Buchwald & Friends for the last year, and the results are finally live: http://bensire.com This WordPress based site incorporates a number of interesting and unique features, a carefully crafted custom theme, and a colorful collection of historic and new photos. Watch for more great photos and other content…
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lcResTool and lcMover LiveCode Plugins Released
If you are using the LiveCode development environment, check out the plugins we’ve developed: lcResTool and lcMover. lcResTool helps you size your windows to a variety of common mobile device sizes. There are options for orientation, e.g. landscape vs. portrait, and automatically subtracting the height of the status bar for several devices. In addition there is…
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Weaving a New Web for Bensire
Bensire, importer, retailer and restorer of some of the world’s finest handmade rugs and carpets, has retained Charles Buchwald & Friends to produce a new web site. The new site will highlight the company’s work, including the amazing rugs and carpets that they design and produce, and the impeccable service they provide around the world.…
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The Museum of Mayan Culture, Chetumal
Charles Buchwald & Friends are honoured to have been part of the recent renovation and reinvigoration of The Museum of Mayan Culture in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Consulting to Mexico’s premiere museum and exhibit design firm Museografica SC, CB&F programmed 3 computer interactive displays replacing older mechanical interactives, and consulted on the development of a…
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Wooster Magazine: The Adventurers
The summer 2012 issue of Wooster Magazine has a article entitled “The Adventurers”, about alumni with a ken for thrills. Page 20 highlights my experience with the development of hangboarding. Check it out here. By the way, if you are interested in the hangboard technology, it’s currently available for licensing, and the team would love…
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Award Winning Firm Museografica Goes Live with CB&F
Multi-award winning museum and exhibit design firm Museografica has gone live with Charles Buchwald & Friends. The new site is the product of extensive collaboration between the renowned company and CB&F. It highlights 20 of Museografica’s 40 museum projects from around the world, with an extensive projects section, a brief history of the firm, profiles…