Check out these awsome notes by Rachel Smith.
She has made them on her iPad using Sketchbook Pro from Autodesk.
Compared to this my own notes look like a gathering of sick pen strokes.
I have downloaded Sketchbook some time ago. But nothing I've made comes close to this. It's all about talent baby ;-)
Tip of the hat to Boetter.
I'm loving this insightful article on the clash between corporate branding guidelines and actual user experience in UX Magazine.
When corporate marketing departments dream of brand design, they only dream as far as they need. The expensive and time consuming process of extending the brand into an interactive concept is usually pushed off until it becomes absolutely necessary.
Unfortunately, by the time some serious rethinking is required, a lot of people have gotten stuck in the mud of static branding. It’s completely natural for companies to resist straying from the handful of predefined styles that were never meant to address web forms, widgets, calendars and menuing systems.
It describes the situation in many organizations spot on and also excels by not solely blaiming the marketing department for this problem. So if your work has the slightest to do with branding and communication go read it.
Always controversial Jacob Nielsen has issued a warning with his news letter Alertbox today: Web 2.0 can be dangerous.
I think he is right in most of the argument but wonder if web 2.0 is really the bad guy here. His points basically drill down to the fact that you should always design a web site with a good deal of user-centricity. But doesn't this go for any web site out there.
There's one really quirky thing about Jacob's post... He puts (rough) percentages on how much web 2.0 infusion that might benefit different types of user experience:
But how do you measure a web 2.0 feature? And when do you know when you have say 10% of web 2.0 on any given site?
