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- July 27, 2006
Reader Question: Adapting The Printable CEO for Musicians
July 27, 2006Read moreReader Rick Fenster, a musician, sent me the following question via email with regards to how The Printable CEO could be adapted in a learning- and practice-based environment. The question is as follows (paraphrased):
A musician can procrastinate to an endless degree instead of practicing or learning new content. It can be easy to blow off practicing. Achieving a goal is somewhat different since it is learning and the task’s completion time is variable. So Dave, I’m wondering: what would be some good ideas on how to implement the Printable CEO to take the added complexities like playing speeds and all that stuff into account?
Rick gave me permission to post the question here, so we can all take a crack at it. But first, my 10-cent analysis:
- July 27, 2006
Portsmouth!
July 27, 2006Read moreAnd today, the socializing madness continues as I head to PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE to meet up with someone for lunch. Looking forward to seeing the ocean, maybe doing a little away-from-home thinking on some projects.
- July 25, 2006
Lifehackered!
July 25, 2006Read moreWow, the Emergent Task Timer got linked by Gina Trapani’s Download of the Day! And thanks for the comment, Lyn, that got the ETT noticed in the first place. Very cool!!!
- July 25, 2006
Quickie Business Card Design
July 25, 2006Read more
I’ll be meeting 4 or 5 people tomorrow, and I’m all out of business cards. So I made this one quickly, lost all my work in a weird crash, and then made it again. The picture shows the final card sitting on top of some uglier previous versions.
I’m not entirely happy with this, but my mindset of late has been to make things then deploy them to see what happens. We’ll see! I’ll make some design comments later, when I have some more time…gotta hit the sack now.
Aside: The “three dots” story comes from this post on gestalt I made a while ago. It kind of captures what I like about information graphics and graphic design in general: a small shift can make a large difference in meaning.
UPDATE:
I got sick of the cluttered nature of this design, and started reducing the number of elements. You can follow along in Part II of this series.
- July 25, 2006
Tomorrow’s Itinerary
July 25, 2006Read moreTomorrow is my Day in Boston trip, a sort of mini-vacation to clear my head and reorient myself. The weather is supposed to be kind of rotten, but forewarned is forearmed!
The Plan
- Drive in around 745AMi with the rest of rush-hour traffic, which will get me to Alewife station right around 8:45-9ish, which is early enough to grab some of the last few spaces on the roof. That gives me a half an hour to buy my MBTA Day Pass ($7.50) and head over to Central Square for my first meeting with a reader. Exciting!
Then it’s off to Harvard Square to kick around, maybe meet a few people I know in the area, and browse some stores. I’ve got a lunch meeting at 1130ish to I guess 1ish, it’s one of those play-it-by-ear things. Visits planned: stationery store (there aren’t any good ones where I live), chocolate store (mmm), maybe a museum.
After lunch, I’m planning on heading toward the Financial District in downtown Boston . I plan to hop on-and-off the various T-stops to see what’s there; this is something I haven’t tried before, having never done the tourist thing in Boston before. I’m planning on visiting the new offices of a company I used to work at and say hi, which should be OK since I know the guy who runs the place.
Then it’s off to Brookline, so I can attend the Boston Flash Platform Users Group meeting; the lecture is by a designer who has to work with engineers, so I’m interested in hearing another person’s perspective on it. That’s at 7PM. Before that, I’m going to meet the friend of a friend somewhere around there and say “hi”.
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p>It’s not much of a plan, but that’s by design. I plan to be as open as possible to experience and see what happens. I’m not even going to bring a computer with me, just my backpack with an umbrella in it and maybe some business cards. I’m thinking of making a 4″x6″ business card for the heck of it, just to see how that goes over :-)
If there’s anyone else out there who wants to plan a random collision somewhere along my itinerary, feel free to shoot me an email :-)
