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I just spent 6 wonderful days at the happiest place on earth with my family. I'm sure the happiest place on earth is different for many people but indeed I mean Walt Disney World. In fleeting thoughts before I went I thought, I'm grown up enough not to have fun at Disney. I can see [...]

Ok, so the title is a lame attempt to get him to see this post, but I’m indeed a big fan of Cabel Sasser (of both his blog and his company Panic Inc., makers of Transmit and Coda). A couple weeks ago I came across a video of his presentation at the C4[1] Conference, [...]

We here at the AIM have gone a little sticker crazy lately. Its an easy and arguably smart thing to do. Stickers have legs so to speak. For a relatively small amount, you can get a batch of 500 to 1000 stickers printed in a very short amount of time (less than a week it [...]

Inspired by a DIY mask in the likeness of famed designer, typographer and instructor Wolfgang Weingart the AIM Product Design Team recently banded together to make our own variation of the Weingart mask. The original Weingart mask was found on Flickr uploaded back in 2005 by laughingmonk. What originally seemed like a fun little way for [...]

It’s never easy to say goodbye but when two members of our design team decided it was their time we made the best of it by doing a collaborative design project. Our way of saying goodbye became a variation of layer tennis where typically two designers send a layered photoshop file back and forth battle [...]

As mentioned previously, members of our design team were at the 2008 SXSW Interactive Conference this year. Please enjoy these video shorts as reflections of our time in Austin. SXSW Interactive Homesick Blues from karl dotter on Vimeo. SXSW 08 / David Louie from Design Lab on Vimeo. SXSW 08 / Valli Ravindran from Design Lab on [...]

Oh the joys of Austin and the fabled SXSW interactive conference. Several folks from the AIM design team were there expanding our minds (and bellies). The Panels and Presos I’ve learned a little about navigating SXSW to find the best panels in my second year. My satisfaction ratio skewed much higher to satisfied this year by [...]

I didn’t even realize there was a “Your Mom 2.0″ discussion until I ran into Karl at the “Defending Your Reputation” panel on Monday. Once I knew about it, I just had to go. It was part of the “Conversation” series - which was held in Ballroom E. The thing about these “Conversations” is they [...]

Now that we’ve been here for a few days, things are (finally!) starting to slow down enough that there’s time to sit at a computer and actually talk about what we’ve seen. On Sunday I attended a panel titled “Logos, Why They’re Irrelevant and Can Actually Hurt Your Business.” As the panel went on, it was [...]

AIM Product Design Group will be in Austin the week of March 7-14 for SXSW 2008. Meet Alisa, Ben, Jayna, Justin, Karl, Rob, Tom and Valli. Ask us for AIM steekers if you want some. Tentatively, here’s where to find us.