Secret Weapon Notes: The Inspiration Edition
Inspiration can come from every corner and from any time period. Here’s what I mean:
- InBloom, SWL’s featured software made for retail businesses that operate on consginment like resale / consignment / ebay consignment shops, is getting more and more writeups, have a look for yourself.
- Thoughts and pics of the original Macintosh user manual - Great style is certainly not fleeting when it comes to great user design. Witness the original Mac manual which documented class and polish with glass reflections, metaphors for the desktop and finder, and eloquent instructions.
- projekt 2 | tina roth eisenberg | inspiration:
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson - Wharton’s Strategic Management opinion on Apple’s ‘walled garden’ approach to telephones
- Then read Wharton’s opinion on the future of software licensing
- The precursor to Valentino’s resignation was the sensational life in fashion exhibit in Rome. Not to be missed: Valentino a Roma. 45 Years of Style Exhibit
- The folks at Six Fried Rice have setup a FileMaker API for Ruby, check it out
- UXMatters has an interesting post on UI transitions as design elements, something that has become increasingly ubiquitous in Web 2.0 and modern GUIs, and is still one of the main problems with FileMaker as a presentation layer to users: Interfaces That Flow: Transitions as Design Elements :: UXmatters
