Process

Dropbox custom domain

Lee Byron — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:34:17 +0000

If you don’t already use Dropbox, you should.

Besides keeping your files backed up and computers in sync, it also allows you to share files with others. You’ll never cringe at attaching huge files to emails ever again. However the links to these shared files can look kind of cryptic and unprofessional. If you’re sharing files with clients, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/918273645/file.zip just doesn’t cut it.

I decided to remap these urls to something a little more legible, professional, and just incase a link to a public file starts getting shared like crazy: an intersticial.

I added a subdomain to my website, http://box.leebyron.com to use as the base URL for these links. http://box.leebyron.com/file.zip is the goal.

There are two files in this new subdomain, .htaccess and index.php. Similar to how pretty-urls and custom 404s are implemented.

Check out these files at http://gist.github.com/326328.

2008 senior show-reel

Lee Byron — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:07:18 +0000

I meant to publish this a long time ago, but time slipped by me. Better late than never.

In my senior year I gave a presentation to the IDSA in which I had to summarize my work in 7 minutes. I opted to speak over a video, rather than a powerpoint, since it would force me to stick to my time-limit.

It’s been too long since this presentation, and I forget my speech, so you’ll just have to imagine what it was I was babbling while this played.

The central theme was the power of using computation and data in design to create things previously impossible.

Design @ ONA 2009 (#ONAux)

Lee Byron — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:17:40 +0000

This past weekend I had the pleasure to speak at ONA09 in a panel (#ONAux) with Aron Pilhofer and Elliott Malkin of the NYT and Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path. I spoke briefly about the new challenges of designing online, the importance of capturing attention, and specifically how animation and interaction can help draw viewers in to interactive graphics.

I’m happy to make public the slides I used for my talk at /else/ona09.

I made reference to The Dot and The Line, and some of my work at the NYT:

San Francisco Hills

Lee Byron — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:56:41 +0000

Playing with some maps this evening. It’s pretty interesting to see San Francisco by only its altitude contours.

New Friend Connections

Lee Byron — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:21:21 +0000

Should have shared this here a long time ago, back in January I put together this data-driven motion graphic showing (in real time) when and where new friend connections on Facebook are made.

openFrameworks on the iPhone

Lee Byron — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:21:18 +0000

Over the last few months, Zach, Theo, Arturo and the rest of the openFrameworks gang have been hard at work to bring you the latest edition of openFrameworks: v006.

I’ve had the privilege of being included in the process, along with Memo Atken, Damian Stewart, and Zach Gage, to help openFrameworks run on the iPhone. Memo has also created some iPhone specific addons for accelerometers, multitouch, and more!

Memo has written up an awesome article about the process and first results, and how to get started with openFrameworks on the iPhone!

Zach and Theo are currently on tour teaching folks about openFrameworks and the first few oF based iPhone applications have reached the App Store!