Trying to Concentrate

Remember not more than a month ago how Google was moving to Phoenix? Now eBay is set to open a data center here in the valley. Summary: They don’t say how many jobs, reason is because they want to diversify locations (and we don’t have many natural disasters), and the jobs are mostly data center…

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.

This is a shout out to all of the people I work with in Phoenix and the surrounding areas. I keep seeing announcements for mini conferences and workshops in other cities and states that sound really cool and are all far away. Some very talented people live in Phoenix and there’s no sense kidding ourselves….

I know a number of you have been interested in getting into 9rules, well, they’re having submission round 4 beginning today. Just thought I’d mention it. — Preposted a long time ago

Can you define what makes someone a “great” designer? It can’t possibly be design style. More and more I fail to see the creativity in Web 2.0. All of the designs look the same with their gradient backgrounds and big shiny buttons. Yet their are some popular designers who design with this one style. I…

Design Observer has an interesting look at how almost all of todays magazine covers are really just photos with a headline and type treatments. Years ago they were a story and an idea usually accompanied by an engaging picture or icon. Yesterday’s covers had a message within the design that they were saying to everyone.