Author: Don Fitzsimmons

  • Common Craft

    I just discovered Common Craft. It’s a great educational resource for all sorts of things (Chris posted a video by them a while back: here). They produce short videos that explain things to people like Twitter, or how to use LinkedIn, all in ultra-basic paper style. So now, the next time you have to explain…

  • What Makes a Blog a Blog?

    I have been trying to figure what technically makes a blog a blog and I hoped the BrainFuel faithful would help me out. So far I have these attributes as the minimum requirements to be considered a blog: A list of posts sorted from newest to oldest Permalinks for stories Syndication (RSS/Atom) Comments So here’s…

  • So Good, It’s Forgotten

    Recently I was doing some work with logos (business cards, desktop backgrounds, etc) for my product. As I was working away, I would periodically save the files to my DropBox. For those who aren’t familiar with Dropbox, it’s an online storage/syncing utility that will make your life much easier (you can thank me later). You…

  • Everyone Loves a List – 40+ Designer Cheat Sheets

    Last week I posted some programmer resources (in the form of a list of 91). Today I stumbled across a list of 40+ cheat sheets for designers. Enjoy.