Twistori is a cute app based on Twitter posting containing the words love, hate, think, believe, feel & wish. I like that it’s inspired by We Feel Fine which I always enjoy playing with just because of its creative use of color blobs.
I admit ooh-and-aah-ing over floating, streaming little color bubbles. Even though it’s been around since 2006, it’s just a feast for the eyes.
I’m always astounded by the amount of emails people leave on their Inbox every day. It seems like a very basic requirement to have a clean, manageable Inbox. Start with a little discipline, add a dash of good organization, a lot of consistency and then sticking with it.
Here are my few tips on reducing your email congestion and increasing your workday efficiency:
1) Take action when you receive an email
1) Reply: If you can respond to the email in less than two minutes, do it so you can delete or archive/file the email.
2) Forward: If there’s a more appropriate person to respond to the email, forward it.
3) Delete: If the email requires no action, then either delete it or archive it for later reference. Keep mail for about 3-4 weeks in “Deleted” folder; anything older than that, delete every week.
4) Archive/File: See “Organize your inbox”
5) Set a Reminder/Add to Calendar: If the email requires action at a later date, set a reminder-or if the action has to occur at a specific time on a certain day, add the event to your calendar.
Result: Clutter-free Inbox. After applying FAT rule, your inbox should only have emails that you need to go back and take action on.
BakerTweet from POKE on Vimeo.
Hot cakes flying out of the oven… and Poke gets to spread the sweet, sweet joy across the Twittersphere.
How about making one that will tweet your friends when you overdosed on sugar or ice cream or just getting fatter by stuffing your face. It will be called HaterTweet. I’d love that!
The Grid System is a resource in grid systems, compiled by Antonio Carusone (check out his LegiStyles).
Why I love it? I always love grids, especially in prime numbers above 3. Preferably 7 or 11. I don’t use them as religiously in interactive design but it is still affecting how I view a design’s overall look-n-feel. (It’s probably because it was drilled into the deepest crevice of my left brain by years of “gridding.”) It’s like balance vs. off-balance vs. off off-balance.
I used to always tell my students, “Either you’re exactly on or you have to be totally off. Not ‘kinda off.'” Because it gives you the same exact feeling of a phantom itch.
And I don’t like phantom itches. Who does?
Jacob shared this note with me this morning. Not to poke fun of people (including some of my friends) who fell under the job-cut guillotine, it makes me smile because I know most of my designer friends are procrastinating over-achievers with A.D.D.
(I have to make a note to myself to remember to mention that to them.)
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