Excellent resource for wireframing on multiple platforms.

Experience should not be an excuse.

Strong argument that puts Solar energy as the primary supplier to the world.

Key Fact: Sufficient energy for the world's energy needs can be harvested from 300'000km2 - an area roughly the size of France

A reminder of what being a designer is really about.

A reminder to think about affordances when designing something new.

why customer journey maps help.

Need to be reminded of this sometimes.

Wishbox is a new way to get feedback. With its screenshots, you’ll be able to find out exactly what the problem is and receive suggestions. You can use it for online customer support, or even manage web design projects with Wishbox as a form of communication between you
and your client.

Great stuff. Installed.

An interesting thought about the worth of deliverables vs the time spent to create essentially redundant artwork.

I really like this approach.

This would have and will save me hours.

An incredible piece of work.

Looks like fun. Though i'm a little disappointed we will still be using qwerty keyboards.

Full TRIZ principle list to follow

The moments when life offers us the opportunity to experience something new we usually allow our conditioned thoughts of fear, failure and doubt to get in the way and keep us doing only what we know. This is known as the safe route, which at times is a beneficial route, but not often if you want to live an enriched life.

I believe that life is all about the memories so I want to share with you a way of thinking, or a philosophy, that I have employed throughout my life. It is a philosophy that has helped me to overcome fear and doubt in order to experience and create many new memories.

It’s simply,

‘Live your life so it’s a story to tell’.

When you think like this, fear tends to take a back seat. The driver becomes life.

‘Live your life so it’s a story to tell,’ has given me many experiences and as a result lots of insightful wisdom I can share with others.

As someone who in their teenage years was very shy and felt I had nothing to contribute or talk about, this was an essential philosophy for me to adopt in order to change the beliefs I had about myself. I felt that the more stories I created in my life then the more interesting experiences I would be able to share with others.

‘Live your life so it’s a story to tell’ has been a huge builder of courage for me. It helps to make me step up to the plate and just do whatever it is I am fearful to do, or complacent about.

“Just go and do it, it will make a great story to tell.”

As a result of this, I’ve created stories of global adventures, dare-devil experiences, profitable investments, disastrous investments, entrepreneurial activities, friendships spanning many countries, and the experience of new foods, cultures, music, sports and activities.

My husband, who is terrified of flights, recently hung backwards off a 192 m building in Auckland, New Zealand and then sky dived. When I asked him why he did it, he replied,

“Well, it gave me a great story to tell.”

When I asked if he thought doing the sky dive had changed him in any way, he replied “It’s certainly made me braver to try other new things and I have a lot more control over my fears now.”

I’ve also found one of the most empowering things about this philosophy, is it helps you to get over those challenging times in your life. When things go wrong for me, I often think,

“Well I guess I’ve now got a story to tell.”

This is so empowering as it allows you to get over it and drop the baggage that we would otherwise carry around with us for years.

It helps you to understand the real version of the story is now over and you can move on to better things. It allows you to learn from the mistakes and take something positive from the negative.

Enrich your life and make it rewarding. The next time your faced with a decision or an opportunity to do something a little different, out of the box, or outside your comfort zone, take control of your fears and doubts by saying,

“Why not? At least it will be a story to tell!”

How have you made your life a story to tell?

Interesting modern adaptation for detailing

Groove Coaster is available now for the iPhone and iPad, and it can be had for a dollar. That price is going to rise up to $2.99 on August 7, so I would suggest going ahead and putting down your four quarters before that happens. This is a good game. It may not offer any innovations in the rhythm game genre, but it does everything it sets out to do and does it well. For a dollar, that's a heck of a thing.

The game puts your icon on a line that acts like the track of a roller coaster, and the camera zooms around as it goes up, down, and all around. When you see another dot on the line, you tap the screen. There are 21 songs included in the game. That's all there is to it, although the game will later introduce swipes instead of taps. Anyone can learn to play in seconds.

Groove Coaster gameplay

The music is brilliant, however, and the design of each of the levels is beautiful. The graphics are simple but expressive, and there are some pleasant surprises in terms of music and level design (just wait until you get to the song from Arkanoid DS). You'll unlock skins, higher difficulty levels, and other surprises as you play.

For such a simple game there is a high amount of satisfaction to be had in learning each level and perfecting your taps, in losing yourself in the music, and comparing your scores with your friends as they play the game. The game is based on a simple idea within a well-worn genre—and it executes with confidence and skill. This is one of the best examples of why the iOS app store is eating into Nintendo and Sony's business: for a dollar, it doesn't get much better than Groove Coaster.

Gives me the idea of gaming that interacts with your own music, you choose the difficulty by choosing the music.

Interesting article on Feedback Loops and integrating sensors to give traction to good habits.