Saving the Spark: Developing Creative Ideas
A List Apart’s ideas for developing encouraging creative thinking.
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I am a New York-based user experience designer. Here you'll find my musings on everything digital (and some things that aren't).
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Saving the Spark: Developing Creative Ideas
Patching ancient walls with legos
Via Boing Boing.
Yahoo’s Design Stencil Toolkit
Yahoo’s Design Stencil Toolkit
Nice design templates from Yahoo’s design team. What particularly impressed me was that they included a bunch of nice patterns (in addition to the standard controls), like carousels, mobile design patterns, and standard ad sizes.
Via aaronrutledge.com.
Paint Drips Pictures
My sister Erin’s senior art show at Cooper Union was last Tuesday. It was amazing. Review here.
Flowing Pixels
Youngme / Nowme
I realize that, in internet time, this project is ancient (approximately 1 week since it got popular), but, what can I say? I’ve been busy lately.
How to Blog Design Style Guide
Ten Thousand Cents
Awesome use of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. This project paid 1 cent to 10,000 people to draw 1/10,000 of a $100 bill. The result is fascinating.
Vintage Logos Photoset on Flickr
Pixel Couch
Damn, I wish I’d seen this before I bought my new couch.
Social Networking Will Become Ubiquitous
Social Networking Will Become Ubiquitous
Excellent article from Logic + Emotion about the role of social networking online. I completely agree that social features are best suited to be supplementary to a site’s primary purpose, as opposed to being stand-alone apps.
An upcoming web conference has only 1 woman speaker out of 48 total
Design Comics Templates
Lovely templates for creating comic-style scenarios from Sun.com’s user experience team.
Veer Typeface Gallery
Gorgeous site navigation.
A painting by Erin Ikeler (my lil’ sis).
A painting by Erin Ikeler (my lil’ sis).
Kriegsnet
Nice “services” listing on a small business web site
Nice "services" listing on a small business web site
I totally need to copy this page. It’s way nicer than mine.