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Design + Branding:
- How to Be an Ideas Factory: Loosen Your Grip on Your Creations
- Patrick Cramsie’s top 10 graphic design books
- So you need a Typeface
- Animated Typefaces: Coming Soon to Your Computer? [Video]
- Blog: Mike Parker, the Font God
User Experience:
- Agile + UX: six strategies for more agile user experience
- Time-Lapse Twitter Visualization Shows America’s Moods [VIDEO]
- Search Patterns
- Keynote Wireframe Toolkit
- Designing Alarms & Alerts
- Should You Copy a Famous Site’s Design?
- The beauty of data visualization
- 8 Principles of Information Architecture
- Radio Johnny: Debra Gelman on Designing Digital Experiences for Children
- In defense of “making it up as you go along”
Other Tangents:
Design + Branding:
- Designing Style Guidelines For Brands And Websites
- What is graphic design?
- Typography Animation project for class
- Return on design investment and why everyone should measure it
- Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World’s Hottest Agency to Find His Soul
- “the object-idea”: the future of what used to be called advertising
- A More Royal Royal Opera House
- The Land of Scot gets Creative
- Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
- Web Fonts Take The Next Step
User Experience:
- “Please, let me redesign your airline for you.”
- iPad vs. iPhone: A User Experience Study
- Learning from Five Years as a Skype Architect
- Approaches to web content strategy
- Avoid Being Embarrassed by Your Error Messages
- Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where You Live
- Eight Principles of Information Architecture (PDF)
- Card Games for Information Architects
- Facebook Kept Thousands Of Check-Ins On Lockdown For Months. Impressive.
Other Tangents:
- Mark Mothersbaugh on Creativity
- Top 20 Sites to Improve Your Twitter Experience
- Hacker Proves Facebook’s Public Data Is Public
- Top 10 Tools for Managing and Automating Your Media Downloads
- How Crowdsourcing Could Help the SEC
- 300+ Resources to Help You Become a WordPress Expert
- Portraits of Influence
- Data Monday: Facebook Stats
- Openness or How Do You Design for the Loss of Control?
- EyeWriter: Paralyzed Artist Draws with His Eyes
Design + Branding:
- nice “you’ve been gone” email reminder from Dropbox
- The Times does info-graphics for iPads
- Neville brody’s anti-design festival.
- Are design contests hurting design?
- Muslim Futurism & Islamic Branding
- Everything but the Stadium Sink
- Data visualisation: an aid to understanding?
- A skip full of records in Soho
- WWII Military Logos by Disney
- Data Monday: US Smartphone Market
- Best Practices To Design a Perfect HTML Navigation Bar
- User Experience Design for Non-designers—Shawn Konopinsky
- Reward the Passionates
- Next-generation UX
- Infographic and Data Interface Videos: the Latest of the Greatest
- Awesome email of the day: The unglamorous side of UX
- The Scent of Search on Johnny Holland
- Should You Be Hands or Brains?
- iPhone 4 GUI PSD (Retina Display)
Other Tangents:
Design + Branding:
- Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Branding
- 40 Awesome Free Fonts for Big Headlines
- Finish Your Masterpiece with Deliberate Goal Planning
- Trade magazine art directors talk about Ready-Media
- The Savior of Condé Nast: Scott Dadich Is The New It Boy of the Mag World
- Big W, Little W, what begins with W?
- Designing Websites that Cross Cultures
- Beautiful & Creative Single-Page Portfolio Websites
- DesignChat Guest – Erik Spiekermann
- The origins of abc
User Experience:
- Mobile First in .net Magazine
- Updating Our Understanding of Perception and Cognition: Part II
- Creative Ways to Use Unmoderated User Research
- Fata Morgana: The World without a Map
- Making Personas more Personable
- Constraintstorming
- Rethink / Reimagine / Redesign
- Conceptual Design in Two Minutes—Nokia
Other Tangents:
- Putting plastic back in the ocean.
- 30+ Killer Web Development Screencasts to fine tune your skills
- New Web Service Tischen Attempts to Rid the World of Unemployment
- A New Way To Embed YouTube Videos
- Jeff Bezos: What matters more than your talents
- What the Great Recession Has Done to Family Life
- How Extraordinary Can a Pitch Be When Procurement is
When traveling for business, there’s a need — in fact, a sense of urgency — to quickly connect once you arrive at your destination. Connect with the car rental company, hotel, colleagues, the office, clients and of course, your loved ones at home.
Today, on my 3rd day of a business trip to Jacksonville, Florida, I bridged the distance of my trip and reconnected with my fiancé, mother, sister, brothers, brother-in-law, niece, nephews, cousins, colleagues, co-workers, and several friends. I used many methods to reconnect: telephone, cell phone, conference call, email (through three different accounts), SMS, MSN, Communicator, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare.
I also consider myself fortunate to have made some new connections today with several clients, colleagues, and some strangers. These new connections were in person, sans technology, and I look forward to reconnecting in the future.
I also received a long distance call today from someone trying to connect by selling me something. Honestly, I didn’t listen long before I choose to disconnect.
Sometimes making a connection is more about connecting the dots. These can be sentimental connections. As a child the only connection I had with the state of Florida was that I knew that this is where the Space missions originated. From the Apollo missions, which saw the first man step foot on the moon, to the Space Shuttle missions which sadly will soon will be finished. These historic and optimistic endeavours all made a profound connection with me. Also, watching these missions was a shared interest and connection my mother and I have.
There are geographical connections; when travelling to and from Jacksonville this week, I will use connecting flights.
Then there are also poor, broken, bad and lost connections. Some by distance, others by time constraints, some by choice, and luckily, only a few by life’s final destination. For these, theirs will be a lasting connection.
There’s a saying that your happiness is determined by the connections you make in your life. Today, I find my life richer, more informed, more connected… happier, by making the choice to stay connected with the people in my life no matter where I am. And yeah, the technology helps.
P.S. Happy birthday, Mr. Armstrong.
This post was originally created for the the3six5’s posterous project.
