Robbie Manson: The Mindful Designer
Another great talk on web design, that feels like it shifts a little outside of the World Wide Web. What I learned:
- We are more efficient when designing away from the computer.
- One of the techniques he uses is called “6-Up Sketching”, where you set a timer for 5 minutes and try to quickly come up with 6 unique concepts. After the 5 minutes is up, you and your team try to find the strong and weak points in each concept.
- Intent has to be balanced with Experimentation. As slick as CSS is, it’s not flexible and an accident usually results in an error, not an innovation.
My notepad…
Twitter Tools Hacked for Identi.ca
Alex King made Twitter Tools for Wordpress. Basically allows you to make tweets from your WordPress blog or create Daily/Weekly digests from your tweets.
Here is a hack to get this to work with Identi.ca.
