Category: design

Friday Five: Short attention spans welcome

It’s been a long slog of a week, so I’ll be practically twitteresque in my introduction today. Here are five short but sweet and thought-provoking posts for your quick reading:

  1. The four horsemen of mediocrity. Pithy insight from Seth Godin.
  2. The trolliest headline ever, and it was written in 1922.
  3. What happens when brands overextend — an xkcd cartoon
  4. Web design: responsive vs. adaptive. OK, this one is relatively longish. But not as long as most web design blog posts I’ve seen.
  5. Photo: All this technology is making us antisocial, via @HistoryInPics.

Happy weekend.

 

Friday Five: By the numbers

5-years-old-handIt’s the third Friday of 2014, and I haven’t done a “By the numbers” post yet? #slacker

Here we go:

  1. 101 creative habits to explore. Great ideas here. Something for everybody. Stuck in a rut? Pick a random number between 1 and 101, go to this site, read the text next to the number you selected, then do it.
  2. 10 tools that aid in web design feedback. Good stuff from the .eduGuru gang.
  3. 2 tools to help you tackle what 2014 will bring to your #highered job. Karine Joly of CollegeWebEditor.com shares a couple of tools she uses to stay focused and track how she uses her time.
  4. 50 must-read higher ed tech blogs. This “dean’s list” from Ed Tech Magazine includes many of my favorites, as well as some new ones to explore. (Hat tip to Katherine Delaney for sharing via Twitter.)
  5. 9 digital marketing trends to watch in 2014. 

Photo via woodleywonderworks on Twitter.