Web Studio at Aalto Studios

21/12/2012

Happy Holidays Everyone!

04/12/2012

Ticket office now open. Anyone interested in going?

We're witnessing a transition to an era where networked devices and user interfaces are everywhere, be it your pocket, clothes or neighborhood. Read more!

03/12/2012

Medium, the next product by Ev Williams (known from co-creating Blogger and Twitter) is coming along nicely. Here's a post by Ev on wysiwyg editing and links to more, should you be curious. They're hiring and have open internships, too. Worth a look. https://medium.com/about/df8eac9f4a5e

We’ve spent a bunch of time (and will spend much more) making the best in-browser editor on the web. Here is an overview of current function…

11/10/2012

Job offer for web developer:

"Creative Sustainability wants to work with you!

The Aalto level master's program, Creative Sustainability, is looking for a developer who could help develop its new website.

You:
• have a WordPress blog of your own or have experience with it
• are fluent in using CSS, Javascript and web standard
• are familiar with social network services (such as Flickr, Facebook) and their API
• work and think in designerly ways
• challenge the conventional practice of web
• enjoy making make fluid, flexible website

The anticipated working hour would be approximately 1 month (165 hours) but it can be split into pieces flexibly, and the compensation will be some 2,000 Euros. If you are confident that you can help us build an awesome website, please send an email to the concept designer/planner Seungho Lee ([email protected]). "

Current website
http://www.creativesustainability.info

The international Master`s Degree Programme in Creative Sustainability (CS) was commenced in autum 2010 at Aalto University. It is a joint master`s degree programme at School of Arts, Design and Architecture, School of Business and School of Engineering. The Creative Sustainability Programme is a mu...

09/10/2012

W3C, the web standards body, has started a process of creating more approachable web platform documentation, together with a number of big players. See http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Main_Page for the alpha, which anyone can contribute to.

Web Platform Docs is a new community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and authoritative source for web developer documentation. Even though Web Platform Docs is still in alpha, you can already find lots of valuable content on the site, including information on:

20/09/2012

iOS 6 is out, so what's the best new feature? Well the remote Web Inspector of course! Plug in your phone and use desktop Safari to inspect pages running on the phone. Here's an older article with even more detail on new features.

http://taitems.tumblr.com/post/24936855546/what-ios-6-mobile-safari-offers-front-end-devs

Here’s what we know about Mobile Safari in iOS 6 so far, and what it brings to the table for front end developers. I expect there’s more to come in future betas and as people experiment with the...

17/09/2012

Heads up, students and staff- a lecture series from the Department of Communications and Networking, featuring, among others, on 2.10 the awesome Horace Dediu of http://asymco.com fame!

Telecom Forum 2012 is an open house studia generalia seminar on Tuesdays at 17:15-19:00 (18.9.-20.11.) in Espoo.

13/09/2012

Here's Stephen Hay's talk 'Responsive Design Workflow' from the great Webshaped conference in Helsinki last may. If they choose to do the conference again next year, I think we'll be handing out some tickets to go with us; stay tuned!

From the http://webshaped.fi frontend conference in Helsinki last spring.

12/09/2012

"Amongst all age groups, game consoles are more popular than tablets as internet-browsing devices" http://www.alistapart.com/articles/testing-websites-in-game-console-browsers/

More than one in eight internet users in the UK, US, and France—and nearly one in four American teens—uses a game console to get online, according to studies from 2010 and 2011.1

11/09/2012

Again, a *two* day crash course for learning to build web apps using Ruby on Rails coming up Sep 22nd by Rails Girls Helsinki! Sign up before the 16th at http://railsgirls.com/helsinki

10/09/2012

Find the well trodden path and a few weird exceptions, here are some great monday sites to browse for Interaction Patterns. Add your own favorites in comments! http://patterntap.com
http://quince.infragistics.com/html/AllPatterns.aspx
http://mobile-patterns.com
http://ui-patterns.com/

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05/09/2012

It's Smashing Magazine's 6 birthday, and what a resource they have grown to be! Congrats! We have their Smashing Books 1 & 2 for you to read, while the new one is (still) on order. In sites to follow, make sure http://www.smashingmagazine.com is on your reading list. For a look at some really fun stuff, see this article, for example: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/21/powerful-new-cssjavascript-techniques/

Smashing Magazine is an online magazine for professional Web designers and developers, with a focus on useful techniques, best practices and valuable resources.