Startups, This Is How Design Works.

Posted by on May 16, 2012 in Design Notes, Tagged, UX and Design News

A guide to understanding digital & physical product design for startups… If you are confused by design speak and want a sound grounding in the basic principles of design then “A guide for non-designers” by Wells Riley is the place to start. As a result of this design education intensive you’ll be able banter in ...

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Quick Start Guide to Personas

Posted by on May 2, 2012 in Business, Design Notes, Tagged, Technology

Lynchpin SEO developed this info graphic: Guide to Building Personas: How to Understand and Meet User Needs. Personas are a snapshot of  your customer and their motivation for engaging with your product. By fleshing them out and giving them a personality one can make smarter decisions. For instance if you are creating a game to ...

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Ze Frank: it’s all about connections

Posted by on Mar 18, 2012 in Business, Social Media, Tagged

Ze Frank is an online entertainer and developer of “The Show”. He has a huge fan base, something that’s every business owners dream. Pursuant to the dream we spend a lot of time attempting to figure out how to achieve the elusive mantle of brand loyalty. So how does he do it? His success is ...

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Test your color matching skills

Posted by on Feb 21, 2012 in Design Notes, Tagged

This color matching game from Method of Action and is crazy making fun. Method of Action looks like it is building out a site to teach programmers about design.

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Happy Valentines

Posted by on Feb 14, 2012 in Inspiration, Tagged, Video

A beautiful exploration of our world and our hearts. Thank you Amy for a perfect gift on this day.

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Social Habits and Time Shifted Viewing

Posted by on Jan 25, 2012 in Tagged, Television

Will we get it right? Whoops! A new Tivo study shows the user becoming increasingly invested in time shifting for their TV viewing experience. You would never expect this following the news coming from CES in Las Vegas this week where the hot topic for 2012 is Social TV. Is this another example of not ...

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Letting Go: Designing for a world at the speed of light

Posted by on Jan 23, 2012 in Design Notes, Tagged

I just ran across this slide deck. It is from a presentation given by Bryan & Stephanie Rieger of Yiibu in 2011 at a conference in Berlin. It highlights many of the new complexities being introduced into design as the speed at which information is disseminated explodes. Letting Go View more presentations from yiibu

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Samuel L. Ipsum

Posted by on Jan 21, 2012 in Design Notes, Tagged

If the client has no humor you may want to use your standard placeholder text but this is just too fun to pass up. Thanks to Konigi for the sighting and Paul Maloney for sharing his humorous take on the usually mundane. Related articles Cupcake Ipsum: A Text Generator with a Sweet Tooth [Lorem Ipsum] ...

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