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HTML5 Video on the iPad – Overcoming Missing Events

Ken Hanson
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This is the second post in a series about how the Hot Studio engineering team tackled a set of interactive content modules for Zinio’s new iPad application.

In the previous post, I gave you a little bit of background – we were essentially creating an entirely new…

HTML5 Video on the iPad – 5 Essential Lessons

Ken Hanson
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I just got the amazing opportunity to attack a set of interactive content modules that Hot’s design team put together for Zinio’s new iPad application.

This is one of the first projects I’ve had as the Hot Studio Senior Design Engineer where I really flexed my muscles with all sorts of CSS and jQuery Voodoo. In the next three posts, I’ll give you a close-up, first person account of how Hot’s engineering team tackled the project and ultimately created an entirely new magazine experience.

Hot wins ‘The Future of Digital Reading’ design challenge

Josh Damon Williams
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Hot is extremely pleased and humbled that our team’s submission was chosen as the winner of Core77 and Portigal Consulting’s 1-Hour Design Challenge, called The Future of Digital Reading. We were blown away by the quality and smarts of the competition, and we’re thrilled to…

Producer, Project Manager… What’s in a Name?

Margot Merrill Fernandez
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Recently the Producer Group at Hot Studio re-examined our label. “We’re producers… right?” we asked ourselves in a heated internal meeting.

I fully recognize that no one outside of the design industry would understand why some interactive producers cringe when referred to as (God forbid!) a “project manager,” “account…

Business acumen for a better world

Maria Giudice
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Calling all designers!

I want you to use your talent and skill to help save the world. One person can make a difference and inspire others to do the same. I have the remarkable privilege to share a stage with three remarkable women who are generating change inside…