Filed under: Shore News
November 13, 2012 • 3:17 pm 0
Gov.uk Design Principles are Brilliant
https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples
We were really excited to find something that captures our own design thinking so perfectly. From starting with user needs, designing for accessibility, and insisting on evidence-based design decisions; these guys have structured these ideas really well.
1 Start with needs*
2 Do less
3 Design with data
4 Do the hard work to make it simple
5 Iterate. Then iterate again.
6 Build for inclusion
7 Understand context
8 Build digital services, not websites
9 Be consistent, not uniform
10 Make things open: it makes things better
Filed under: Dry Dock, Shore News, GUI design, user experience
May 24, 2012 • 3:14 pm 0
Shore and Hitachi Consulting team up on Ontario IT Solutions VOR
Shore has teamed with Hitachi Consulting, a leading provider of IT consulting and management consulting solutions and services, to provide services on the Vendor of Record (VOR) for Information Technology Solutions Consulting Services (VOR Arrangement OSS-00195390 – I&IT Solutions Consulting Services).
Shore is very excited to be working with Hitachi Consulting to expand the range of services we’re able to offer our clients in the Ontario Public Sector. Shore’s agility and responsiveness can be more easily scaled with the support of Hitachi Consulting’s depth of experience, global scale and history of innovation
Details can be found in Hitachi’s press release.
Filed under: Shore News, Hitachi, VOR
February 2, 2012 • 8:24 am 0
OLA Super Conference
We’re giving a talk with Tim Gauntley about what exactly the learning commons is and we’ll share our exciting work in the field.
Filed under: Shore News, education
December 1, 2011 • 10:45 am 0
Adobe Dumps Flex
Adobe has announced their intention to donate its Flex SDK, for building web applications, to the FOSS community. While the Open Spoon Foundation has been working on an open source fork of Flex, it is our suspicion that Adobe will donate the SDK to the more mature and capable Apache Software Foundation. Causing a furor among Flex developers, Adobe has announced that they believe HTML5 is a better technology for moving forward than the Flex platform. This of course has raised concerns that the Flex platform will recede into the classification of abandonware, as Adobe has a tendency to abrubtly terminate support for technologies that it deems a failure. So where is this going exactly? Is this a generous donation to the FOSS community? Or is it just Adobe dumping their abandonware? Hopefully the answer may be found largely in the former, as opposed to the latter.
Filed under: Dry Dock, Shore News
