Does your flier care about the customer?
I found a flier promoting the local film festival’s app. I was stunned at how poorly thought through the experience was, from copy-editing to putting machines before customers, it needed to be dissected and understood so it doesn’t happen in your future projects.
Calendar Business Cards
As a challenge, is it possible to re-invent the year calendar through a different lens? Rather than appointments, red days or other events, what if we put the days of the week first rather than the number? Then, to top it all off, what if you had to fit it onto a business card? This articles walks you through the process, the pitfalls and links to some code so you can make your own designs.
Shine-on you crazy ones!
As our devices get more and more advanced hardware, we can be wasteful with the processing power to create better experiences for the customers. The leap from command line to clickable desktop wasted thousands of pixels to always represent a trash car that’s rarely used. Now Apple has pushed back again and is wasting processing power and sensors to simulate reflections and lighting conditions in the interface. Is it wasteful, yes, is it a good idea, probably, have their raised the bar, definitely, but have they done it right?
Blank Business Cards
For everyone who forgets to bring their business cards with them to events. I have a solution.
The Data Journalism Handbook
The Data Journalism Handbook is a Creative Common’s licensed book about using data in reporting. This article is my contribution to the book.