hi there!
I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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Last week MODM was on again - the crowd included a heap of guys from the hippo.com.au job website, the Australian Anthill guy, a heap of web devs, plus a few RMIT entrepreneurship students, not to mention the regulars. Dave from Hippo dropped me a note (where else but facebook) to say my website wasn't...
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As much as I hate creating websites, my latest project seems best suited as a website, so I'm back on the web design path. Looking for inspiration, I came across a book titled, The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird , on some blogs. I realised that it was a Sitepoint book, and knowing...
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Do people who design products actually try using them, or do they just put things where it's physically feasible, aesthetically pleasing, traditionally located and/or downright inconvenient just to piss us off? The computer industry is renowned for this, but it is definitely not the only culprit. First...
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Via this engadget post, I found out about the Australian Design Awards - Student Award , and some of the designs are awesome. There's designs for chairs, helmets, bags, toilets, blood vessel sensors and others that seem to cover every category under the sun. I never thought we were much of an innovation...
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I'm in the process of redesigning this blog because well, I'm over this design. I know it was only a few months ago, but it just doesn't feel designed right, something just makes it feel amateur-ish. I am pretty much an amateur at this, but that's not the point. I reckon I can do better, so I'm trying...
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There's a lot of stuff lately on blogs about user experience, and its not just about software. Seems like the days of manufacturers telling you what to do and screwing you around are finally changing; the newcomers (and some old ones) are now chanting the new cool - customer/user experience. The Enlightenment...
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Here's a post for my mates with cars running through their veins - Peugeot in conjunction with Microsoft recently held a competition for entrants to design a futuristic car that fitted the criteria P.L.E.A.S.E.: P leasurable to drive L ively E fficient A ccessible S imple E cological Here's the massively...