31st
May
2005
“Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons is an article that I meant to link to ages ago, and is presented here for the sake of completeness. ‘Crunch mode’ — working extra hours each day for extended periods in order to meet a (usually arbitrary and unrealistic) deadline — is a term that’s familiar to programmers, especially any who’ve worked at a small firm or start-up over the past 10 years.”
posted in Business of design | Permalink |
31st
May
2005
“It doesn’t matter how brainy you are or how much education you’ve had - you can still improve and expand your mind. Boosting your mental faculties doesn’t have to mean studying hard or becoming a reclusive book worm. There are lots of tricks, techniques and habits, as well as changes to your lifestyle, diet and behaviour that can help you flex your grey matter and get the best out of your brain cells. And here are 11 of them.”
posted in Learning | Permalink |
31st
May
2005
“You get the call, someone wants to hire a photographer. What do you do? Well, the one thing you can count on is that your client has no idea what they really want beyond the desire to have a photographer take great images. What is also probably pretty clear two or three calls later is that you have no idea how to sell your work either.”
posted in Photography | Permalink |
31st
May
2005
“While there is much good in design thinking, I think we have to not get carried away about designers’ power. In my experience, I’ve seen many negative qualities of design thinking, qualities that have proven a detriment on projects and to the profession as a whole. Dirk Knemeyer exposes the dark essence of design thinking when stating, in the comments section of an article he wrote, ‘we need to begin controlling the environments that our work is being experienced in.’”
posted in Usability | Permalink |
