Momentum Design Lab Blog

Introducing Voyavo, a Robust Online Trip Planner

Erin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:56:46 +0000

We’re excited to announce the launch into private beta of our new travel site, Voyavo, the first end to end solution for online trip planning. Similar to other travel sites, users can book flights, hotels, cars and vacation packages but Voyavo offers additional features where users can create, manage, organize and share details of their travel itinerary with family members, friends and business colleagues. We’ve incorporated tools to be able to search for activities, restaurants, and landmarks that can then easily be added to travel itineraries. These tools (and more!) make Voyavo a great solution for organizing group travel.

Download White Paper - The Value of Positive User Experience

Erin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:12:10 +0000

Download the full white paper from founding partner Joe Preston’s speech at AJAXWorld today:
http://momentumdesignlab.com/papers/roi.php

MDL Partner to Speak at AJAXWorld

Erin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:37:02 +0000

Founder and partner at Momentum Design Lab, Joe Preston, is gearing up to speak at AJAXWorld in NYC on June 22nd and 23rd. He will present his experience and findings from a recent white paper: investing time, effort, and thought into the user experience design of a product or service has quantifiable benefits when integrated early and thoroughly into the software development process. If you’re lucky enough to attend, be sure to drop by and show Joe some support! To get the preview of the presentation, go to http://momentumdesignlab.com/papers/roi.php
The conference will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel on Madison Avenue and 45th Street in midtown New York City, and takes place on Monday, June 22 and Tuesday, June 23rd. To register online for the event at www.ajaxworld.com.

Kazowie.com is now integrated with Facebook Connect

Erin — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:00:45 +0000

Since its launch in 2008, Kazowie.com has grown into a popular social shopping site as we’ve continued to add rich features to the site. You can now create personalized gift registries, plan group gifts, browse thousands of products and stores, use existing IDs to login, post news feeds directly from Kazowie to sites like Twitter, Friendfeed and Tumblr as well as the option to post lists in personal websites and blogs. We are excited to launch the implementation of Facebook Connect into the site. This allows users to sign into Kazowie with their Facebook account…

…which automagically connects a user’s profile, friends and privacy settings with Facebook. We figured that this was the next logical step in the world of social networking- people want to stay connected in multiple aspects of their lives, and what better way to keep friends posted on your cool new Kazowie finds than Facebook?

Check out these features and more http://kazowie.com

Yet Another Amazing Release- More Icons!

Erin — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:39:18 +0000

We’ve finally finished our entire icon set that now includes over 2000 icons in two different styles:

The Momentum Matte Set, which was released in early 2009 has already shown its popularity. This set is inspired by the classic icon style and includes icons for any application need you can think of: basic applications, e-commerce, sports, multimedia, graphics, people and objects and much more.

The Momentum Gloss Set is inspired by Windows Vista/XP icons and are available for use in basic applications, e-commerce, weather, sports, networking and security, business, multimedia, graphics and more.

Additionally, we are now available for custom icon work, so if there’s a specific icon that isn’t already in our extensive library, we’ll be able to design custom icons for any project. We’re also offering a sample of 100 free Matte icons and 50 free Gloss icons for you to download and use as you please, (as long as you follow the Creative Commons licensing). Check out our icon site and download some amazing icons today!

http ://momenticon .com

Momenticon! Our Brand New Matte Icon Set

Erin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:23:14 +0000

A few months ago, we released an amazing free set of 100 icons, inspired by the classic icon style. Today, we’re proud to be launching our new website devoted to the extended set that includes almost 1000 icons. Available for use in Computer/Software, Business/E-Commerce, Lifestyle, Multimedia and Basic applications, you’ll find almost every icon you’ll ever need. Here’s a sneak peak of the free set if you missed our first release:

We’re in the process of developing another icon set in a different style, so be sure to check back for new releases soon!
Check out the Momenticon Matte Icon Set

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