Rather, we try to help them understand this: Accurately assessing the nature of their own personalities, their sense of self-identity, and the degree of control they have over their work and family lives is crucial to finding satisfaction. Balance is not the goal. Integration is. … More important is how they make you feel about […]
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Personal growth brings wisdom, who knew ;)
It’s been 2 years since having moved back to Vancouver, and taken on the responsibilities of being the guardian for my elderly father with Alzheimer’s and delusional dementia. It has been the most intensive life experience out of my many years on this earth, and I feel proud to have managed to survive all the […]
It's time for an affogato :) #cafe #gelato #coffee #affogato
Taken at Dash of food
Beautiful Designs by Svetlana Nezus
via home-designing.com Do you love interior design? You might just love these, I know I do 🙂
Weekend of Cooking
via instagr.am Today’s purchase from the Farmers Market @ Nat Bailey 🙂 This should be of help to boost up the immune! Post colds.
Zokos Aims to Feed Hunger for Real Life Interaction | Food+Tech Connect
via foodandtechconnect.com Zokos is a new startup that aims to make it easier for people to connect in real life – over food- by reducing what they have identified as the “barriers to entertaining.” Last week, the Brooklyn-based startup launched their first tool, a platform designed to help hosts manage an event and share the […]
Macaron, French and Italian ones we made in class @pastrytraining
“Undesign” Your Portfolio Website
“Undesign” Your Portfolio Website Apr 2 2012 by Kean Richmond | 17 Comments | Stumble Bookmark Even the most ineffective, unattractive or simple of man-made objects have been designed in some way. The same is true for the Web: Even the most hideous of websites are created by someone who has consciously made decisions into […]
Why Can’t Startups Find Designers? Don't go looking for unicorns…
via thenextweb.com I really like the below excerpt from the article: According to Braden Kowitz, a unicorn is “a magical designer that can solve all [of a company’s] problems”. If you’re looking for a designer who can come up with your identity, design your site, create UIs with great user experience for your web and […]
What Does The Perfect Mobile Interface Look Like? (Don't Ask Siri) | Fast Company
via fastcompany.com …. As promising as each of these technologies may be, none completely solves the mobile interface dilemma. On our portable devices, it’s still too difficult to input large piles of text, to work with complex graphics, or to otherwise manipulate data as we’re used to on our desktops. “In many ways, this is […]
Media Queries
via mediaqueri.es Dangerous… I can see hours of fun checking out these responsive web sites! As Tommy Lewis @tommylee suggested humorously, great for a date! Lol…
Influxinsights » mad men teaches us how to have an engaging conversation
via influxinsights.com That’s pretty ingenious, engaging the viewers of MadMen with an upcoming episode, as if we were brought back in time. Love it!
Spring bouquet
My Competitive Advantage: I Hire Artists – ChrisAshworth.org
My Competitive Advantage: I Hire Artists – ChrisAshworth.org. When I read the above article the first time, via my friend, <a href=”http://rachaelashe.com/2011/03/07/hire-me-hire-an-artist/”>Rachael Ashe</a>’s website, it had me feeling emotional. Second time around, it still pulls at my heart strings. His observations acknowledged how I often felt whenever my work overran my creative needs. I am an […]
Rechner App: World's first gesture based calculator
via vimeo.com I found this to be very interesting and a cool concept, and can’t wait to try it out, as the gestures reminds me of what it’s like to use an abacus when I was a kid. It’s strange to think I could add/subtract and multiply/divide using an abacus when I was around 8 […]
Birdy – 1901
Beautiful cinematography and music. *love* via vimeo.com
Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
via boxesandarrows.com This one is for me, learning more about the Agile Process, as in my UX experiences in a different industry, Agile isn’t the common word in development of products. So much to learn, love it 🙂
Case study of agile and UCD working together – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
via boxesandarrows.com Great case study example showing the holistic workflow and methodologies used in the redesign and development of a large scale website.
10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design
Whitney Hess is an independent user experience designer, writer and consultant based in New York City. She authors the blog Pleasure and Pain. When I tell people that I am a user experience designer, I usually get a blank stare. I try to follow it up quickly by saying that I make stuff easy and […]
Wood and concrete | NordicDesign
via nordicdesign.ca love the juxtaposition of cool and warm materials used, such simplicity as well.