More Good Foundation redesign

The More Good Foundation has launched a redesign of their website. From the announcement on their blog:

The five-plus-year-old non-profit–founded by Dave Neeleman, Ken Woolley and Jim Engebretson, is an enabler of site and content creation that will allow for Mormons to define for themselves who they are, to reclaim the media conversation, actively dispelling misperceptions about us, and utilizing the “Net”–the New Media and Internet–to be fishers of men in our day– and to do so judiciously, safely, and in organized fashion.

The beautiful metaphor of the net, as the Savior shared it in Luke, included a call to be ‘fishers of men.’ In a meaningful moment of reflection, it occurred to MGF staff that this Internet of our day is much like the fishing net of old–it is, in one sense, a new metaphor for the gospel “net.” It is a tool of the gathering, the way through which the honest in heart can find the truth through anonymous and self-initiated searching and studying.”

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LDS Interaction Framework

The North Temple group has just published a case study describing an interaction framework built for developing web applications.

The Interaction Framework (IxF) is the result of a collaboration between members of the Interaction Design Team in Church’s Information and Communication Systems Department. The goal of IxF is to make development and prototyping faster, to ensure best practices in UI design and ultimately to save sacred tithing funds and make the user experience better for the folks who use our apps. We are excited to formally announce this project and introduce you to some of the work we’ve been involved in.

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Combating pornography

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has launched a new website about combating pornography today. The site includes resources for individuals, spouses, parents, youth, and leaders. It contains a wealth of articles and sports a fresh, new design by Jason Lynes.

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Hulabalub tech and design event guide

Local artist, developer, and entrepreneur Jason Lynes has launched a new project called Hulabalub. It is a free registry for technology and design events. He’s done some excellent work making browsing and posting a smooth and pleasant experience.

Hulabalub is the definitive guide to every tech and design event in the world.
Our unique filtering lets you search and subscribe to all conferences, lectures, parties, even dinners and drinks, further filtered by location, speaker, topic.”

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•  Business, Graphic design, User interface, Web

Post to group through Google Wave

I have created a Google Group for us so that you may “wave” to everyone in the group via Google Wave. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a pretty URL or email address because they were already used and Google has a lame rule that they can only be used once, even if the previous instance has been deleted (which was by me, which makes it even more lame).

Visit the Google Group home page for more information. Join the group and then add the address “utah-graphic-arists@googlegroups.com” to your Google Contacts list. You can then add the group address to new waves and everyone will have access to it.

Note that Wave will bark that that user does not have a valid Wave account when you try to add it. Ignore that and simply strike the return key and the address will be added to your contact list.

LinkedIn group membership requests declined

Some membership requests for our LinkedIn group were accidently declined. If that was you, please resubmit your request and it will be approved. We apologize for the inconvenience.