Convincingly Sincere

The challenge is to design something that you yourself would find useful and engaging... usually with the caveat that you have to pretend you have a totally different background and skillset... interests... abilities.... Like the man said: if you can fake sincerity, you've got it made.

Squeaky wheels

There's communicating (interfacing with colleagues, an even-handed give-and-take, sharing knowledge and opinions) and then there's being the squeaky wheel. They're not the same thing. And reinventing the squeaky wheel is way out there.

It's all storytelling

From a while back, but still a very smart piece from Boxes & Arrows:

Use of Narrative in Design

Good ideas

www.improvisedlife.com -- where-good-ideas-come-from

Those who can

Those who can, do.

Those who can't .... well, they would be the clients, wouldn't they?

Someone WILL miss the point

Got a disappointing review on Amazon for the LBBD - a fellow who looks very much like the Peter MacNicol character from Ghostbusters 2 objects to "one sentience per page."

"Sentience" is what we're all pretty much going for, isn't it?

Don't

Don't hide the "Next" button. Just don't.

Inside Freshbooks. A nicely done recruiting / about us page. I particularly like questions 10 and 12.