links for 2005-09-07 By Nic Price on 8 September 2005 — 1 min read Conversational writing kicks formal writing’s ass If your brain had a bumper sticker, it would say: I heart conversation (tags: writing conversation) BBC NEWS | Magazine | The rules of advertising, Part 2 Quite funny (tags: advertising bbcnewsmagazine satire) More
links for 2005-09-05 By Nic Price on 6 September 2005 — 1 min read Ruby on Rails (tags: opensource development web application) More
links for 2005-09-03 By Nic Price on 4 September 2005 — 1 min read Gartner Highlights Key Emerging Technologies in 2005 Hype Cycle Believe the hype (tags: emergintechnologies gartner pressrelease) More
links for 2005-08-26 By Nic Price on 27 August 2005 — 1 min read Creating Passionate Users: Stop your presentation before it kills again! Ditch the slides (tags: presenting presentations powerpoint keynote slides) More
Drag and drop Europe By Nic Price on 26 August 2005 — 1 min read How well do you know your European countries? Try dragging and dropping 45 countries to their correct places on the European map in this Flash-based online learning game. You have to be pretty accurate to get a right answer and there are no country outlines to help, only land and sea. I got 35 on... More
links for 2005-08-19 By Nic Price on 20 August 2005 — 1 min read GUUUI – The Interaction Designer’s Coffee Break Is that a picture of Jakob Nielsen in the banner? (tags: interactiondesign visualdesign webdesign userexperience informationarchitecture) More
Smile and be happy By Nic Price on 19 August 2005 — 1 min read Out of the gloom a voice said unto me “Smile and be happy, things could be worse.” So I smiled and was happy and behold things did get worse. I don’t know where this originated, but it was on the pinboard at home when I was growing up with a big yellow smiley face above... More
links for 2005-08-18 By Nic Price on 19 August 2005 — 1 min read Core77.com / design magazine + resource Industrial Design Supersite – it says so on the banner (tags: industrialdesign productdesign design) Core77 – Visionary Stupidity “The Donald” has become as “visionary” a brand as any out there. And one cannot help but wonder how designers work with Trump as their client. (tags: design industrialdesign productdesign) More
I am constructively ignorant By Nic Price on 18 August 2005 — 1 min read Visionary stupidity: in which Cordy Swope discusses how companies go wrong with product design and development. My approach to design is as “consumer in context”. I leave the domain knowledge to the experts. The article argues that without a good dose of ignorance and objectivity in the design process brands become myopic to the point... More
links for 2005-08-17 By Nic Price on 18 August 2005 — 1 min read Social bookmarking – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Includes useful list of links to tools out there (tags: socialbookmarking socialsoftware wikipedia tools tagging tag tags web reference) LookSmart’s Furl – Your Personal Web Where better to bookmark a link to Furl? (tags: socialbookmarking internet web furl) More