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Articles from October 2008

Productivity Zones

October 14th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Productivity is the effectiveness of productive effort. As it relates to my industry, web design, I think it’d be helpful to compare and combine a few viewpoints of my peers. I’ve uncovered a few things that haven’t been said yet, so bear with the pseudo redundancy. I’m mostly writing this for me, in an effort […]

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Filed under: Productivity · The Zone

Easy annotations

October 7th, 2008 · No comments

Love this presentation of new features at Google Docs. As you may know, I’m a big proponent of wireframing with pen & paper. Communicating the value of each feature is much easier when there’s a clear starting point. If it’s obvious how to progress through the wireframe, it makes the task of understanding it a […]

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Filed under: Design · Events · Google Docs · Wireframes

Color + symbolism (link)

October 6th, 2008 · No comments

In a hunt to uncover the emotions behind colors, I came across a neat color-related website.
Cymbolism is a new website that attempts to quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.
The home page presents us with a word, and a palette […]

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Filed under: Design · Link