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The Designers Review of Books

March 19, 2009

The Designers Review of Books is a brand new site reviewing design books. It’s run by Andy Polaine, an interaction designer, journalist and lecturer.

Brightstorm

March 19, 2009

Brightstorm is an online learning network designed to help high-school students deepen their understanding of important subjects and better prepare for college through video-based courses designed and taught by expert teachers from across the country.

RECESSION

March 19, 2009

Escape the stress of the ensuing RECESSION. Some clever marketing… RECESS IS ON!

Email Standards Project

March 19, 2009

The Email Standards Project is a community effort to ensure that emails render consistently. Similar to the Web Standards Project, the Email Standards Project community works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.

Back of the Napkin

March 19, 2009

The premise behind Roam’s book is simple: anybody with a pen and a scrap of paper can use visual thinking to work through complex business ideas. Management consultant and lecturer Roam begins with a watershed moment: asked, at the last minute, to give a talk to top government officials, he sketched a diagram on a [...]

Be Kind to the Color Blind

March 19, 2009

Chris Campbell or Particle Tree provides an excellent set of guidelines and examples for designing with users with color deficiencies in mind.

Friends of the Earth Inhale

March 19, 2009

Pollution is closer than you think. The image of the back of a car is printed on the lid, with the straw in place of the exhaust pipe. The lid is distributed and used by road-side food stalls. When consumers drink from this cup on the streets, it would be like they were inhaling toxic [...]

Staction

March 19, 2009

Thank goodness for modern web services. Apps like Twitter, Pownce, and Tumblr have taught us all new ways to communicate briefly, and succinctly. It’s time that the business world started embracing the new way of talking. If you’re stuck in: account/client/project/type-of-data/some-specific-list – Pull your head out. There’s a lot of work and communication going on [...]

How to Take Advantage of JQuery for your design

March 19, 2009

Karl Swedberg, of Fusionary Media, talked about the advantages of using JQuery and other JavaScript libraries in your Designs. Karl recommends JavaScript as a prototyping tool, to get a start on a design and then passing it along to the developers. One of the big advantages of using JavaScript is that it keeps your HTML [...]

Barack Obama

March 19, 2009

Yes. We. Can. Congratulations Obama. [Barack Obama] | [Official Website]