Kipu for your phone!
Earlier this week we put up some I Need Sugar wallpaper to help combat the general lameness of Apple’s built in lock screen options and the busy home screen wallpapers that make your icons difficult to see. Well, we’re super excited now to offer Kipu wallpapers which are not only cute as can be, but the home screen wallpaper is so springtime it’ll make your icons want to dance!
Our Value Pricing deck from last week’s NXNE Interactive panel.
Last week we had the pleasure of joining Sam Ladner, Jon Lax and our moderator Simon Conlin on a NXNE panel discussion about value pricing. Abolish The Hourly was a well attended session and, from on stage, appeared to be capture the audience. I suppose any time you challenge the status quo, people take notice. But this topic is really nothing new, though it may be somewhat foreign to the creative services industry.
Sugar for your phone.
Boy that new iOS 4 is pretty snazzy. But it has those super complex textured backgrounds that make reading your icons more difficult than reading anything should be. So without further ado, here’s a lock screen I Need Sugar wallpaper for your iPhone (4, 3G, 3Gs or whatever, it works on’em all) and a matching home screen desktop for your iOS 4 phone that’ll help your icons pop. Enjoy!
Towards better readability on the Web.
Proponents of Web font options have been given a boost with @font-face, Typekit and now Google’s support with the Google Font Directory (of course, in Google ubiquitous Beta). However, the greatest barrier to Web legibility is not typefaces but rather screen size.
We’re in Montreal this week.
In addition to our Kipu demo at Sproutup Toronto this week, we’re in Montreal for WebCom and Make Web Not War. Reach out if you’d like to talk design, or join us me as the panel moderator from 11:30a to 12:15p at Make Web Not War as we discuss the value of social media & community for developers.
This talk will include panelists:
- Joey DeVilla, Microsoft Canada
- Jeremy Wright, 76 Design
- Com Mirza, The Lemonade Boy
Hope to see you there!
Kipu question: What’s the minimum amount of time you’ll spend on a task?
A one question survey on the minimum interval of time you’ll spend on any given task.
Please fill out the google survey, s’il vous plais.
We’ll be presenting at these upcoming events in April, May and June.
We’re pleased to be speaking at these upcoming events throughout April, May and June. Collectively, they offer a variety of topics, whether you’re an entrepreneur, marketer, or freelancer. Take a look!
DesignGuru Talks: Online Identity.
Friday, April 23, 2:00p at the Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Avenue, 4th Floor, Alterna Boardroom.
We’ll be discussing a variety of issues around how individuals and organizations can maintain a harmonious identity across varied platforms on the Web.
Kipu question: How important is it when you’re tracking time to be able to define multiple roles per person so that you may bill each of their roles at a different rate?
A one question survey about supporting multiple billing rates per person so you can variably bill clients based on the type of task you completed.
Please fill out the Google survey, s’il vous plais.
It’s about time! A presentation on time tracking and work life balance.
Here’s our slide deck from IgniteTO on how finding daily patterns in where we spend our time can help us win back our lives. The Ignite format is 20 slides in 5 minutes, so you have 15 seconds with each slide before it automatically transitions. Here I’ve loaded the slide deck in a format that let’s you transition with a click so you can spent as much time with each slide so you don’t have to experience the Ignite stress. I’ve also included a more polished script than the largely ad libbed one that was done live. But I promise I did get these points in within my 5 minutes limit. And I only said, “I’ll just wait for the next slide…” once.
The importance of infrastructure: Haiti and beyond.
In the wake of the earthquake and ongoing disaster relief in Haiti there has been a lot of discussion around the political state of Haiti. Setting these political issues aside, let’s look at the disaster itself and, more specifically, how Haiti’s infrastructure has played a roll in multiplying the level of destruction and, as a result, greatly increased the requirement for aid and subsequent rebuilding efforts.
