Momentum Design Lab Blog

keeping up with the latest technologies, the final frontier

Erin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:50:28 +0000

If you’ve missed the last few weeks, we’ve been releasing presentations that involve various web technologies. We’ve covered things like Javascript Frameworks, Rich Internet Application Technologies, runtimes, frameworks and programming languages. Our final release involves ASP.NET frameworks that are built on top of Microsoft technology. These frameworks give you the ability to build customizable UI components and elegant applications. For more information on Microsoft Technologies, visit our ASP.NET and Silverlight presentations.
View these and our other informative presentations on Slideshare or here in your browser:

Component Art

Infragistics

Telerik

keeping up with the latest technologies, part 4

Erin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:00:27 +0000

This week’s presentations cover a few Javascript frameworks, including EXTJS, JQuery, GWT (Google Web Toolkit), and YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library). All open-source, customizable libraries, these Javascript frameworks offer various tools and plug-ins for building richly interactive web apps. Examples are animations, utilities, controls and widgets.
Be sure to check out our archived presentations that cover RIA technologies and runtimes, programming languages, and other frameworks.

View the presentations on Slideshare, or in your browser here:
EXTJS

JQuery

GWT

YUI

Keeping up with the latest technologies, part 3

Erin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:51:29 +0000

Over the past few weeks, we’ve begun to post presentations to our blog to highlight some helpful developer tools and amazing web technologies. So far, the presentations have included RIA technologies and Runtimes (Air, Flex, Javascript, Silverlight, and Swing/Java), and programming languages: C#, PHP, and Python. Be sure to check them out. With this weeks release, you can easily compare features of various Frameworks.

View the presentations on Slideshare, or here in your browser:

Keeping up with the latest technologies, Part 2

Erin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:00:16 +0000

In case you missed the news, we’ve recently begun releasing a set of presentations that are handy resources for keeping up with new (and some old) web technologies. Today, the set includes a breakdown of a few programming languages. Learn things like: where they came from, what they look like, what they are used for and who uses them. Be sure to check out last week’s release that includes Rich Internet Apps- Air, Flex, Silverlight, Swing/Java, and Javascript.

View the presentations on Slideshare, or in your browser here:
C#

PHP

Python

SynthaSite receives 1st place in “TIS innovation 100 Awards”

Stephen — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:06:58 +0000

SynthaSite has again been praised for it’s ease of use and innovative design at The Industry Standard Innovation 100 Awards for community & social. Momentum worked on SynthaSite’s new UI which was launched back in July. Brad Damphousse, one of our Senior Designers, shined on this project by creating a beautiful and now award winning interface.

Other winners include Mint, TripIt, & Etsy
Read about it here:

http://www.thestandard.com/awards/tis100/2008/tis-100-winner-community-and-social-synthasite

Keeping up with the latest technologies

Erin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:00:42 +0000

As we all know, technology is critical and unavoidable in any modern lifestyle- everything from ATM machines to cellphones to vending machines are changing rapidly. Here at Momentum, we know that not everyone has the time to sit down and research the latest web technologies so we’ve done it for you! We’ve put together a nice sized set of presentations that will give you the lowdown on what’s out there. The first set includes a sampling of RIA technologies and Runtimes. We’ll be releasing them slowly over the next few weeks so be sure to check back.

View the presentations on Slideshare, or in your browser here:
Air

We know iKnow - as seen on TechCrunch

Stephen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:42:06 +0000

It’s always great when our customers get recognition and of course, to see our designs at work. iKnow is truly revolutionary learning system and that’s been proven with explosive growth. They saw a 40% increase in users in just two months! This is a prime example of how investing in UI design early pays off in the long run.
iKnow Is A Social Learning Platform That Can Really Make You Smarter.

The Momentum Matte Icon Set

david — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:17:33 +0000

Over the past few months, we have been busily creating a sizable library of icons in two distinct styles: matte and gloss. Today, we are excited to release the first free set of 100 Momentum Matte Icons. This free set is available in two optimized sizes- 16 x 16 and 32 x 32—and is available for you to use as you please*. Be sure to keep an eye out for future releases, including an expanded, commercially available set. And please feel free to send us feedback!

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The Momentum Matte Icon Set by MomentumDesignLab is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

*You may use these icons for both personal and commercial use as long as you include a link back to this page at least once in your credits. You may not, however, repackage these icons for resale in another icon set or sell them individually.

Synthasite launches with new UI

david — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:45:22 +0000

We spent a greater part of a month working with the folks over at Synthasite to improve the workflow of their WYSIWYG web-builder application. It has seen some press over at Techcrunch today, as well as received some nice praise from Vinny, the CEO, over at his personal blog.

Introducing Kazowie

david — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:40:09 +0000

As you may or may not know, we’re generally known for the success we’ve had with our enterprise application design. Some of our more notable, successful customers are Ariba, SuccessFactors, and Rapt (recently purchased by Microsoft). What most people don’t know is that we’re also a Social Media company with a great amount of depth behind our experience. Many of our original customers were early social media companies such as SMS.ac, GoFish and Facebook.

On Thursday of last week we unveiled our latest and first real release of our own Social Shopping site, Kazowie.com, to the world. Since we’re received some flattering articles written about our site. Check it out, explore it, join, grow it, participate and and be sure to give us any feedback you may have through our contact form on our site. You can see some more of our features over at our blog.

Take care of our baby, she needs a lot of love and attention until she can learn to walk on her own.

Here are some links to our coverage:

http://mashable.com/2008/06/24/kazowie-shop-socially-the-startup-review/
http://www.rotorblog.com/2008/06/19/create-gift-registries-and-more-at-kazowie-social-shopping-site/
http://localadvertisingjournal.com/2008/06/22/social-shopping-is-this-new-phone-any-good/