gilbert lee archives

posted by gilbert on Sunday, Mar 09, 2008

Portuguese Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price now available online. Pepe, this one’s for you!

posted by gilbert on Thursday, Feb 14, 2008

We are hiring. If you are interested in applying for one of our full-time Interaction Designer positions, please apply online.

posted by gilbert on Wednesday, Feb 06, 2008

President Thomas S. Monson web site is here. He is the newest Mormon prophet.

posted by gilbert on Monday, Feb 04, 2008

Gordon B. Hinckley Web Site

We should have been more prepared for this but we now have a new mini-site live: Gordon B. Hinckley.

I designed this page Sunday night when I found out President Hinckley passed away. I shared it with a few product managers and after prototyping (with Aaron Barker and Emmy Southworth), editing, intellectual property, correlation, AV production, quality assurance, development oversight, networking, and publishing, we finally pulled it off.

This site shrank the experience we have on developing projects that take months into one week. Granted it is only a page but there was definitely a lot to learn from in a short time. It also shows the care we take when the Church publishes official information.

Thank you to all those who helped with this: Larry, Tom, Mindie, Brent, John, Aaron, Emmy, Scott, Brian, Wade, Greg, Jimmy, and more.

(My favorite thing on this page is the timeline. Special thanks to Aaron for making this happen.)

And if you’re wondering about the next president’s site, yes, we are preparing for that now.

posted by gilbert on Friday, Feb 01, 2008

Since I don’t post much on my blog anymore, I hope this is okay with the editor. (This is technically not a self-promo. Right, Jason?)

The proud dad in me just can’t stop sharing pictures of my girls. This is Mila, the second of my three girls. Pictures were taken by Jamie Sampson.

posted by gilbert on Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008

Communication Arts just redesigned their site. The homepage is more useful to me now. And they have a feature on one of my favorite illustrators, Nate Williams. Jason, it’s time! (edited by the editor.)

posted by gilbert on Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008

The UK Design Council published their “Eleven lessons: managing design in eleven global brands”. It’s quite a big study (144 pages, PDF). What I was interested in: The Study of the Design Process and Managing for design excellence. I usually like to print out studies like this and read them but it was actually better for me to read it online.

posted by gilbert on Monday, Jan 21, 2008

The song behind the Macbook Air ad is from Yael Naim called New Soul: “La la la la la la la…” Available in iTunes. Music Video here.

posted by gilbert on Saturday, Jan 19, 2008

Hints for Designing International Web Pages from Richard Ishida, W3C Internationalization Activity Lead

posted by gilbert on Thursday, Jan 17, 2008

An archive of web’s best open source software. (I don’t know if believe him but it looks like a good list anyway.)

posted by gilbert on Monday, Jan 07, 2008

“Dude, I come out on Product Search.”
Pete, googling himself

posted by gilbert on Wednesday, Jan 02, 2008

Hi, my name is Jason Lynes.

posted by gilbert on Wednesday, Jan 02, 2008

“Tom Brady broke the record for most touchdown passes in a season with 50, and Randy Moss broke the record for touchdown receptions in a season with 23. The Patriots also broke the record for most points scored by a team in a regular season.”
A Perfect Season for the New England Patriots

posted by gilbert on Saturday, Dec 29, 2007

I know tables are out of style in our web design 2.0 world but I love how this page’s layout over at Little Bookroom. I can’t wait to get a couple of these books next time we’re in NYC.

posted by gilbert on Saturday, Dec 22, 2007

Elder M. Russell Ballard urged two hundred graduating students at Brigham Young University-Hawaii to use the Internet — including blogs and other forms of “new media” — to contribute to a national conversation about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

But he cautioned against arguing with others about their beliefs. “There is no need to become defensive or belligerent,” he said.

posted by gilbert on Saturday, Dec 15, 2007

Christopher Phillips who works for CES (Church Educational System) presented to our team this past week on the “why’s” of designing for accessibility. (Thanks Christopher!) We asked him if he could share some descriptions of people with disabilities so we can understand better. Here’s his roundup: Personas of Persons with Disabilities.

posted by gilbert on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007

10 Ways To Get Design Approval is a good reminder what we should do as designers. Here’s my favorite statement: “3. Understand the users. We all like to think of ourselves as user centric designers, but exactly how much effort do you put into knowing your users before beginning the design process?”

posted by gilbert on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007

posted by gilbert on Friday, Dec 07, 2007

Simple explanation on kerning vs. tracking.

posted by gilbert on Tuesday, Nov 27, 2007