Brian Wood
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to make your site "retina"-ready by optimizing graphics and other content so that it looks great on retina (HiDPI) and non-retina displays alike.
With stunning new screens like the Apple Retina display coming onto the market, many designers want to learn how to make their sites retina-ready. This course provides several options for optimizing graphics and other content so that it looks great on retina (or HiDPI) and non-retina displays...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn more efficient ways to manage client expectations and feedback on freelance UX projects with these tips.
Managing clients can be one of the most time-consuming aspects of freelance UX design. Learn more efficient ways to manage client expectations and feedback on freelance UX projects with these tips. Brian Wood introduces strategies for initiating discussions, justifying expenses, prototyping designs, conducting reviews, and—most importantly—getting...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn to create optimized web graphics that download quickly and look great on a variety of devices, including Retina displays.
Creating graphics is easy. But creating optimized web graphics that download quickly and look great on a variety of devices can be a chore. Learn the best file formats and production techniques to get great looking graphics every time, in this course with Brian Wood. Discover how compression affects image quality; learn...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to make your web graphics lean, mean, and optimized for modern devices and bandwidth scenarios.
Designing Websites for Performance explores quick patterns, tips, and tricks for working web designers. In this installment, Brian Wood shows you how to optimize and minimize the size of your web graphics for a smooth, seamless browsing experience. Learn how fonts affect page performance, how to use vector artwork for scalability and smaller...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use Figma to create interactive user experience (UX) projects and designs.
Learn how to use Figma, the collaborative interface design tool. This course introduces the features and concepts you’ll need to know to start your first user experience (UX) design project in Figma. Find out how to create new files, segment your project for multiple screens and devices, and start adding content, including shapes, images, drawing, effects, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use VirtualBox and virtual machines for browser testing. Brian Wood explains how to run multiple operating system to test Internet Explorer compatibility.
You can increase the cross-browser compatibility of your website and test against many versions of Internet Explorer by using VirtualBox. The VirtualBox application allows you to use virtual machines and emulate different operating systems, without needing to invest in additional hardware...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to collaborate more effectively on UX and design projects by using FigJam, the online whiteboard and brainstorming tool.
FigJam is an online whiteboard for ideation and collaborative brainstorming. If you’re a designer, it can come in handy as a tool—plus, it’s really fun for the whole team. In this course, instructor Brian Wood shows you how to use FigJam to collaborate more effectively with your stakeholders on UX and design thinking...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Learn how non-designers can get the most out of FigJam, the online whiteboard that helps you collaborate more effectively on UX and design thinking projects.
FigJam is an online whiteboard for ideation and collaborative brainstorming. If you work with UX or design teams but you’re not a designer by trade, FigJam can be a fun and approachable tool that lets everyone have a voice on a project. In this course, instructor Brian Wood shows you how to...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use Miro for user experience—or just general—brainstorming and collaboration.
Miro is an online tool that allows you to develop ideas and to collaborate easily with other people. In this course, Brian Wood shows you how to employ Miro for user experience brainstorming, with methods that can also be used for wider brainstorming in general. Brian covers how to start up a collaborative session in Miro, different brainstorming project...
Author
Series
Massive volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Callum Israel and the crew of the Kapital face their greatest threat yet: Arkady, Israel's former colleague bent on revenge. When the Kapital is bombed in port, Callum and Mag head into the dangerous streets of post-Crash Europe to confront Arkady. But what they ultimately discover may lead them to their long lost ship The Massive! Meanwhile, Mary reappears in the Sahara desert, guarding a convoy of fresh water, holding a secret that might unravel...
Author
Series
Massive (Brian Wood) volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"At the end the story begins. What does it mean to be an environmentalist after the world's already ended? For Callum Israel, leader of the Ninth Wave oceanic activist group, this is the question that cuts to the core of his identity. In a post-war, post-Crash, post-disaster, post-everything world, nothing is certain and ideologies are meaningless. But the mission remains: search this crumbling world for answers to the cause of the Crash, and keep...
Author
Series
Massive volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Still adrift and on the hunt for their sister ship, The Massive, the crew of the Kapital - all that's left of Callum Israel's dwindling environmental-activism group Ninth Wave - are challenged at every turn as they face mutiny, sharks, snowy isolation, and the tempting possibility of a new life on a utopian sea station. But, the strain of life in a crumbling world, as well as secrets about Israel's failing health, threaten to destroy a crew stretched...
Author
Series
Massive volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In Longship, Callum Israel and Ninth Wave go head to head with a disgraced comrade threatening nuclear war, a rogue faction of the US Navy working as pirates in New York Harbor, and a colony of Norwegian whalers who hunt in the Viking tradition" --
14) Mara
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The story of an especially gifted woman in a sports- and war-obsessed future. When she starts manifesting strange superpowers, the world that once embraced her turns against her, and for this young woman who once had it all, it's almost too much to bear.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A brand new Robocop series set in the original continuity, featuring the return of Alex Murphy as an aged and depowered cyborg who is enlisted back into the fight against oppression once more. Thirty years have passed since Alex Murphy first took to the streets of Detroit as RoboCop. Following the destruction of its original entity, OCP has risen again, appropriated by a new tech startup and fashioned into a mobile app called OCPolice, allowing citizens...
16) Local
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
"From Brian Wood (Demo, DMZ, Northlanders) and Ryan Kelly (Lucifer, American Virgin, The New York Four) comes Local, a collection of twelve interconnected short stories, each featuring Megan McKeenan, a young woman who sets out from Portland, Oregon with nothing but a rucksack and a bad case of wanderlust. These emotional vignettes each represent a year in the life of this young vagabond as she searches for a place to call home, both physically and...