Better Manuals

25 Mar 2008 | Design, Tech

A few simple points like these can make the difference between instructions or a manual that will help and support your user versus one that will frustrate and discourage. Often these materials are your users first contact with your support system. Leave them with a positive feeling about how you take their enthusiasm for your product or service seriously and with care, and the effort will be well repaid.

Yanko Design News

23 Mar 2008 | Design

Here’s another interesting source Yanko Design – Modern Industrial Design News. It’s sort of an unfiltered, shallow-but-broad collection, but there are some interesting comments and lots of articles. Technorati Tags: industrial design,...

Big on Small

21 Mar 2008 | Boats & Boatbuilding, Design

I’m a big guy who likes small things. “Big” is not just a vague, subjective call. I’m 5cm short of 2 meters tall, and 100 kilo’s. Anthropometric studies peg my size at the 95th percentile for North America. (This is especially convenient...

Peregrine’s Perch

20 Mar 2008 | News

Here’s another shameless plug: my old house is for sale: check it out. It’s a beautiful, quiet location not far from Ganges, and a 2 minute walk from some very beautiful coves and beaches. Great for biking into the famous Saturday Market. It has broadband...

Found on Flickr

19 Mar 2008 | Design

Flickr makes it easy to share store, organize and share photos. It’s a great tool for both business and personal life. If you want to be found on Flickr, though, it takes just a few moments longer. Here are a few tips for getting the most out of this great...

Apple’s Design Process

17 Mar 2008 | Design

Somewhat surprisingly to me, BusinessWeek has become a high profile advocate for design, and especially industrial design. They have regular articles, both in print and on the web, and they even have a design competition. This article by Helen Walters has some...

The Janet Greene Fund

12 Mar 2008 | News

Janet Greene was about as positive a person as you might ever meet. Most of the time I spent with her was at my mother’s family’s cottage in Thousand Islands Park in upstate New York. I have fond memories of evening walks among the beautiful Victorian...