Chris Z. Griffin

August 15, 2007

Transition from Visual Design to Interaction Design

Over the past month at Planet Argon, I’ve been taking on more interaction design work. Mostly because there’s a gap to be filled with all the design work on our plate, but also because I said I was willing to take it on. Visual design to interaction design doesn’t seem like a huge transition on the surface (it’s all design right?), but it has really been a challenge.

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August 12, 2007

RubyURL: Keep it Short (and Sweet)

I’m a few days late announcing this, but Wednesday, Robby launched the new version of RubyURL, the first rails application running on Planet Argon’s new hosting platform, Boxcar.

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May 08, 2007

Boxcar

Boxcar

Today, Planet Argon announced a new business hosting plan called Boxcar. If you are looking for hosting for your rails application in the coming weeks, and need a bit more power than what a shared server has to offer, look no further.

Head over to the Boxcar website to sign up for the mailing list and you will be notified as soon as Boxcar launches.

On another note, I believe this is the first of my design work I’ve done since I was hired that has seen the light of day….BOO YA!

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March 03, 2007

Job Titles and Their Irrelevance

I am a Designer. I am a Developer. I can plan and create web experiences. I can develop in XHTML and CSS. I am familiar with Javascipt (after reading this book I hope to have more than an a familiarity). I have some SEO experience (although I don’t care to ever capitalize on those skills again). I can create a blog on the Textpattern (ick) and Movable Type (double ick) platform (Coming Soon to this list: Simplelog). I have a little experience designing for print (business cards and letterhead?). I have a little experience in branding. I have a little experience developing in Ruby on Rails.

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February 25, 2007

New Blog, New Beginnings

Welcome to my new blog (all 12 of you currently subscribing). A lot has changed since I last wrote on my old blog, and I got the itch to start blogging again.

What has Changed?

Well, I’m glad you asked because I love talking about myself. In the last 6 months I have moved (from Hillsboro to Portland), I’m no longer single, and I got a new job.

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