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Quote of the Week for November 4, 2007
2007-11-06 04:46:00 The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -Hans Hofmann More About: Quotes , Week , November , Quote
UXmatters Article: How Do Users Really Feel About Your Design?
2007-11-04 13:26:00 The user experience field has been trying to move beyond mere usability and utility for years. So far, no one seems to have developed easy-to-implement, non-retrospective, valid, and reliable measures for gauging users? emotional reactions to a system, application, or Web site. Read the article from UXmatters that introduces you to a promising method that just ... More About: Design , Article , Usability , Users , Feel
UXmatters Article: How Do Users Really Feel About Your Design?
2007-11-04 13:26:00 The user experience field has been trying to move beyond mere usability and utility for years. So far, no one seems to have developed easy-to-implement, non-retrospective, valid, and reliable measures for gauging users? emotional reactions to a system, application, or Web site. Read the article from UXmatters that introduces you to a promising method that just ... More About: Design , Article , Usability , Users , Feel
Making the Most of a Design Engagement
2007-10-31 15:07:00 An article for clients from Adaptive Path on making the most of a design engagement. As a designer, a great thing about this article is these tips can be added to your existing methods of client interaction. As a client, these tips help explain a lot of internal thinking many of us as designers/developers have ... More About: Design , Process , Engage , Engagement
Quote of the Week for October 28, 2007
2007-10-29 15:50:00 “Think simple” as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. - Frank Lloyd Wright More About: Quotes , Week , Quote , October
Knowing Yourself Creatively: Exercises and Final Thoughts
2007-10-26 18:09:00 Building On Your Creative Profile The idea behind the questions that you’ve answered over the past 8 weeks revolved around the examination of the relevant factors that helped assess your creative profile. Moving beyond assessment, the exercises below can help enhance your capacity in the majority of these factors (motivation, curiosity, management of fear and stress, ... More About: Thoughts , Exercises , Final , Knowing , Process
Quote of the Week for October 21, 2007
2007-10-22 15:29:00 On planning ahead, keeping a plan going, and keeping a plan flexible: You have to have a plan in place, but one not so rigid that you don’t take detours. All the “Aha’s” are in the detours. - Terry Egger, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch More About: Quotes , Week , Quote , October
Knowing Yourself Creatively: Ability to Innovate
2007-10-17 20:46:00 This post is part 8 of 8 of the exercise: Knowing Yourself Creatively. Although people often use the terms interchangeably, creativity and innovation differ from one another. Each demands different treatment, and each has a different science. Creativity is the generation of novel and appropriate ideas. Inno vation implements those ideas and thereby changes the order of ... More About: Process
Quote of the Week for October 14, 2007
2007-10-15 04:39:00 Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. -Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) More About: Quotes , Week , Quote , October
FootJoy: Outerwear Banner Campaign
2007-10-12 20:29:00 I just completed a FootJoy outerwear banner campaign over at Outsight. The creative direction of the banners plays off the experience of playing golf in the fall. If you’re a golfer (or know one), head on over to FootJoy.com and enter to win some free gear. The sweepstakes is going on through October, and you ... More About: Design , Projects , Campaign , Banner
Knowing Yourself Creatively: Self-confidence
2007-10-11 03:04:00 This post is part 7 of 8 of the exercise: Knowing Yourself Creatively. A lot of us have high expectations for our own creativity, and we tend to fulfill those expectations. But sometimes personal expectations can fail to materialize, and failure can be problematic. As with success, failure breeds expectations for more failure, which can also ... More About: Confidence , Process
DryJoys Microsite Named 2007 MITX Finalist
2007-10-09 18:12:00 The DryJoys Microsite, a microsite designed and developed by Outsight Interactive (where I work) for FootJoy, has been named a finalist for the 2007 MITX Awards. A huge congrats to the Outsight team and our client, FootJoy. More About: Design , Projects , Recognition
Quote of the Week for October 7, 2007
2007-10-08 22:29:00 Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso > View the quote animation I was looking at some experimental work I did a while back, and found and edited an animation to go along with this week’s quote. Hope you like it. More About: Quotes , Week , Process , Quote , October
Knowing Yourself Creatively: Creative Evaluation Capability
2007-10-03 18:40:00 This post is part 6 of 8 of the exercise: Knowing Yourself Creative ly. There is a common, irrational fear that the longer a goal goes unmet or a problem unsolved, the more impossible the goal gets and the worse the problem. As always, fear inhibits creativity. At the end of the creative process, this fear expresses ... More About: Evaluation , Process , Capa
Quote of the Week for September 30, 2007
2007-10-01 04:36:00 Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -Auguste Rodin More About: Quotes , Week , September , Quote
Seth Godin Post: The Ball Bearing and the Beach Ball
2007-09-27 14:20:00 Michael Brooke writes, I am not publishing a magazine ? I am helping to document and foster change within skateboarding. The magazine is part of a greater movement within skateboarding. Concrete Wave exists to spread specific ideas. The more people we can spread these ideas too, the more success we achieve. I am not merely building readers ... More About: Marketing , Beach , Post , Seth Godin , Ball
Knowing Yourself Creatively: Making Connections
2007-09-25 18:43:00 This post is part 5 of 8 of the exercise: Knowing Yourself Creatively. Connection making comes naturally. You hear a strange noise and you create an explanation for it. You’re handed a menu in a language you cannot read and yet manage to order what you want. Every day people wrestle order from the confusion of ... More About: Process , Makin , Connections
Quote of the Week for September 23, 2007
2007-09-24 18:23:00 Knowing how people will use something is essential. -Donald Norman More About: Quotes , Week , September , Quote
John Maeda on Simplicity: TED Talks
2007-09-20 22:04:00 Inspiring and fun video on simplicity. Reminds me a lot of his AIGA lecture at MassArt last year. Worth a look. Via: swissmiss More About: Design , John , Simplicity , Process
Knowing Yourself Creatively: Connection Breaking
2007-09-18 14:24:00 This post is part 4 of 8 of the exercise: Knowing Yourself Creatively. Picasso said, “The creative act is first and foremost an act of destruction.” What is meant by destruction is the destruction of rigid assumptions about what can and cannot be done. Assumptions are what everyone “knows” as a truth underlying the circumstance in ... More About: Connection , Breaking , Process , Brea
Quote of the Week for September 16, 2007
2007-09-17 03:43:00 Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. -Paul Klee More About: Quotes , Week , September , Quote
Knowing Yourself Creatively: Management of Fear and Stress
2007-09-11 14:19:00 This post is part 3 of 8 of the exercise: Knowing Yourself Creatively. When you search curiously for unimagined knowledge, you reach into the unknown. The unknown can be frightening. If you’re frightened, you can easily lose the capacity for curiosity (when we are faced with new but risky task we can avoid beginning them). ... More About: Management , Stress , Fear , Process
FootJoy: Licensed MyJoys Banner Campaign
2007-09-10 22:21:00 I just finished up another Flash banner campaign over at Outsight Interactive… this time for Foot Joy: Licensed MyJoys. Licensed MyJoys allows you to personalize golf shoes via colors and team logos (Collegiate and Major League Baseball). The creative direction of the banners plays off this customization. A fun challenge was figuring out how to fade ... More About: Design , Projects , Campaign , Banner
Quote of the Week for September 9, 2007
2007-09-10 04:15:00 I invent nothing, I rediscover. -Auguste Rodin Reminds me of a recent article on creative adaptation and the different ways of defining it. More About: Quotes , Week , September , Sept , Quote
Quote of the Week for September 2, 2007
2007-09-07 14:32:00 Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -Voltaire Powerful. More About: Quotes , Week , September , Sept , Quote
Article: Challenges Every Blogger Must Overcome
2007-09-06 21:16:00 “Successful blogging is hard work and not everyone is up to the task.” Mike St Pierre shares tips on overcoming the following challenges of blogging: Boredom Stat Obsession Lack of Creativity Envy Straying …and more. Read the article Challenges Every Blogger Must Overcome . I know I can relate. More About: Article , Process , Artic
Knowing Yourself Creatively: Curiosity
2007-09-04 15:14:00 This post is part 2 of 8 of the exercise: Knowing Yourself Creatively. Curiosity furthers creativity. We all need time to explore in an open, curious, creative state of mind. A problem I face with curiosity is finding time for it. Many of us don’t have time for exploration after we’ve started a project. We can ... More About: Process
Quote of the Week for August 26, 2007
2007-08-31 15:15:00 The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. -Michelangelo Beautiful. More About: Quotes , Week , August , Quote
Article: Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms
2007-08-29 21:01:00 An in depth article on best practices for designing web form actions. Definitely worth the time. More About: Design , Article , Usability , Primary , Forms
Knowing Yourself Creatively: Motivation
More articles from this author:2007-08-28 22:08:00 Do you know who you are as a creative individual? I thought I did. I have since realized that I was only scratching the surface. Why is that? I’ve been taking an inventory of my personal preferences involving creative work, and have started to build a creative profile. Building a Creative Profile Building a creative profile has ... More About: Motivation , Knowing , Process 1, 2, 3 |
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