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OrganizedWisdom | Great Links. Shared by Experts. Organized by Topic. like the feature cube with the hed/deck overlay.

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What’s your iPhone wallpaper look like?

Taken in 2003 at the Tate Museum in London … just walking by a gallery and snapped this with a Canon Elan 7 35mm—sometime its better to shoot with the light in front of you.

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NY Times Coverage of Fannie/Freddie Bailout

Add to Porfolio? Well, they do say buy low, sell high… I doub’t that was the intention here. (See the bottom of the image, the story is about the U.S. Government bailout of the morgatge companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Consider the default case

When websites evolve and acquire new features it is important to handle “default cases” well. When I registered for the site in this image, the site’s designers had implemented a very basic personal profile, screen name, email and password; later they added additional details such as “Full Name”. As an early registrant in the system, [...]

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Focus on writing

When a simple 10 minute exercise in thinking and writing up a few ideas turns into a two week delay in action, maybe the environment precludes the generation of the message. Can simple applications like WriteRoom make you more productive? You don’t need to write the next, great novel to appreciate the powerful, liberating experience [...]

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Well designed registration forms make me happy

The example above from Remember The Milk’s sign-up form points out how easy registering for a product or service should be. It looks so easy, but in reality making it seem easy take experience, empathy and real work. As a result, you’re probably not going to find the answer to the question “How do I [...]

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Boston Ranked 3rd Best American City, by Design

A June 25th article in BusinessWeek magazine highlights a study by architectural firm RMJM Hillier, the article list the top ten American cities ranked by design. The study included an assessment of cities with a population greater than 500,000 and interestingly included weighting by “number of ‘green’ buildings and level of sustainability”. Boston was ranked [...]

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