In part three of Keith’s ongoing series of post about working with Blue Flavor, he talks in detail about how best to empower our designers and get their best work out of them. I think many potential clients do have a misguided perception of how the relationship between client and designer should work, and Keith aims to quell some of those misunderstandings. Really good stuff. Visit site »
Besides the afore mentioned piece from Ms. Bolton, there’s also a great piece from Mr. Boulton in the latest A List Apart. Mark talks about fostering ideas. He notes that the brilliant moment of creative inspiration is rarely a great idea in and of itself — it needs to be honed and fostered, and he presents some suggest on ways to facilitate that process. Visit site »
Web operations can only thrive when they are staffed by people who get the Web and enjoy using the Web. These are people who categorically prefer the Web over print publications. If this doesn’t describe your journalism organization, then you are doing something wrong.
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Great piece by Brian over at the Blue Flavor blog. As he explains, edge cases aren’t usually presented because someone has a serious concern over the viability of an idea, but are rather a result of ulterior motives — and, they tend to totally deflate inspiration and creativity. Visit site »
I would have included DHH’s “PHP is the devil,” but what do I know? Visit site »
Tom wrote a great piece at the BF blog on setting expectations — perhaps the most important part of successful project management. Visit site »
Paul Boag has some great tips on how to get you designs approved by your client or boss. Visit site »
If you ignore the tired “getting real” brand masturbation, there are some really good thoughts in here.
In fact, that could be said about pretty much every post on SVN. Visit site »