Step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And then do it again, and do it again, and do it again (…) And suddenly without realizing it you’re seeing the world differently. Everything has changed. Everything in your life has changed. TEDxPSU – Sam Richards – A Radical Experiment in Empathy (by TEDxTalks ) ( Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )
Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2012 (by stargatefilms) Things are not what they seem…
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The apps that get featured on the iOS App Store Over the past few months, I’ve been researching the kinds of apps that get featured on the iTunes App Store home page for different countries around the world. Here are my initial findings.
Scientists have been studying the way we react to colors for many years. Certain colors make us feel a certain way about something. As long as the designer knows what these colors and emotions are, the designer can use that information to help present the business in the right way. These are not hard and fast rules but smart designers use the information to their clients advantage. (via The Psychology Of Color In Logo Design ) ...
“inspiration” also means to breathe in. (…) But don’t forget to breathe out. Derek Sivers in Seeking inspiration?
Make the transition from learning to thinking to creating! Jacob Barnett in Forget What You Know, at TEDxTeen – YouTube
You can measure a man’s character by the choices he makes under pressure Winston Churchill
A Good User Interface has high conversion rates and is easy to use . In other words, it’s nice to both the business side as well as the people using it. Here is a running list of practical ideas to try out. (via GoodUI )
**Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design ** (via Vitsœ | Good design ) Good design… … is innovative … makes a product useful … is aesthetic … makes a product understandable … is unobtrusive … is honest … is long-lasting … is thorough down to the last detail … is environmentally-friendly … is as little design as possible Born in 1932, Dieter Rams is one of the foremost industrial designers of the 20th century. ...
Dieter Rams: Design by Vitsœ Speech delivered in December 1976 to an audience at Jack Lenor Larsen’s New York showroom: The designer must be the gestaltingenieur or creative engineer. They synthesise the completed product from the various elements that make up its design. Their work is largely rational, meaning that aesthetic decisions are justified by an understanding of the product’s purpose.
Gamasutra: Ramin Shokrizade’s Blog – The Top F2P Monetization Tricks The above mechanics are not meant to be exhaustive, but give a basic overview of key techniques used in coercive monetization model based games to defeat a customer’s ability to make informed choices about the costs and values in these products. See also Monetizing Children
Steve Blank (via How To Build A Startup: The Lean Launchpad – Udacity ) Syllabus… Lesson 1: What We Now Know Why startups are not smaller versions of large companies Lesson 2: Business Models and Customer Development How to articulate and test hypotheses **Lesson 3: Value Proposition ** How do you find your minimum viable product? **Lesson 4: Customer Segments ** How do you find your customer archetype? **Lesson 5: Channels ** How does your product gets to customers? ...
Role is something you play, model is something that you make. Both of those things are fake. Russell Brand, paraphrasing Tupac Shakur in the “Home Affairs Committee Drug Evidence, April 24 2012”
Basic Features: Overview of iOS Crash Reporting Tools: Part ½ | Ray Wenderlich Setup Procedures: Overview of iOS Crash Reporting Tools: Part 2/2 | Ray Wenderlich
Apportable – Objective-C for Android Objective-C for Android Apportable lets you cross-compile your iOS game to Android, dramatically expanding your user base. Hummm… I wonder if this is half-decent in practice as it “looks” in theory.
Apple – Making a difference. One app at a time. (by Apple ) THIS!
Seth’s Blog: Naming a business First, (…) The LESS it has to do with your category, the better. Second, please pick a real english word, or a string of them. (…) Third, be sure it’s easy to spell AND pronounce. (…) Fourth, don’t obsess about getting a short web name. (…)
Brad Ellis – Çingleton 2012 (by Çingleton) Team self-assessment skills… quite complementary, no? 🙂 https://www.dropbox.com/s/2uuyynyaemxxtlm/hugo.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/1jx0hi5s99st8a0/susy.png
Quartz Composer for iOS – Joris Kluivers This project intends to provide a rendering & interaction framework for .qtz on your iPhone or iPad. Similar to what the Quartz Composer framework provides on OS X.