November 05, 2003
Driven by Design Review
I just returned from the Driven by Design conference and seminar. It was put on by Apple with other supporting sponsors like Adobe, Quark, HP and others. The promotional materials were beautifully design and presented. The event over all was more like a show case of all of the new products being release by the leaders in design industry. I didn’t get to see everything being showcased but, here is a list of the items that I found useful at the conference.
- Adobe’s Version Cue
- Illustrator’s new 3D effects
- Apple’s New G5 with Panther OS
- Apple’s 23” cinema display
There were not many disappointments but, some of them were the lack of attention to standards based HTML layouts. Mainly this is attributed to Adobe’s Golive WYSIWYG software. I will most always favor hand coding over the WYSIWYG software. I just think hand coding makes a site’s code lighter and easier to work with.
Anyway, if Driven By Design comes to your city, I would suggest going and llearn what the industry is coming out with next in software and hardware.
Blake