imjustcreative • Yo Momma is a Shitty Graphic Designer by 55His ….

This is brilliant and sooooo ‘designer geekery’.

.

Although not truly an IT job, this CIO article does a great job of making feel all warm and fuzzy inside with this:

3. User Experience Designers

Because so many of the apps companies are developing—whether for PCs or mobile devices—are customer facing, they need user interface or user experience designers to ensure the apps are fun and intuitive to use. Robert Half anticipates starting salaries for user experience designers to rise 6.7 percent, to between $71,750 and $104,000 per year.

I recommend every Interactive Designer out there to read this article and somehow get your hand

s on a phone or device that is running ICS. It has an amazing UI and this article explains the philosophy behind it all.

I have been inspired and in awe of the look and feel of ICS and hope to bring this into all of my designs sooner than later.

5 Ways That Android Is Trying To Break The Mobile UI Paradigm | Co.Design: business + innovation + design.

@cameronmoll tweeted an article from ArsTechnica today announcing that Google will not support flash in it’s latest browser: Chrome for Android (Beta).

Today Google introduced Chrome for Android Beta. As we announced last November, Adobe is no longer developing Flash Player for mobile browsers, and thus Chrome for Android Beta does not support Flash content,” wrote Adobe’s Flash Platform product manager Bill Howard.

The past year has been devastating for Adobe Flash and for Flash designers and developers. I personally think this is for the best, as it gives us UX designers and Interactive Creatives one more bullet in our magazine to shoot down horrible “creative” ideas from people that don’t understand the web and usability. “Hey yeah, that idea is nice and all, but to pull it off we’ll have to build it in Flash. Oh and by the way, you want this be mobile optimized so yeah, start over.”  Ahhhh that felt good.

I’m still waiting for a client/project to use the parallax scrolling effect. It’s technique that I think requires a very specific reason for using it. But here is a collection of some AWESOME examples of how it works and when it makes sense to use it. I am still trying to find one that uses it properly on mobile though.

Make sure you check out the beetle.com site. WOW!

Mind Blowing Parallax Scrolling Sites.

Oh Superbowl.. how your ads suck so. This was quite possibly the most boring halftime show and some of the worst ads I’ve seen in a while…. well since the last Superbowl I think. Sigh.

Anyway, this article is really amazing when you think about it. 5 facts about how Social Media is still BOOMING and on the rise.

1. Bluefin Labs has so far tracked more than 12.2 million social-media comments during and after Super Bowl XLVI, primarily on Twitter and Facebook. That’s a 578% increase over the total Bluefin tracked last year (1.8 million).

Read the rest here: Five Amazing Facts About Social Media and the Super Bowl | Special: Super Bowl – Advertising Age.