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Setting aside my wedding day and birth of my son (too obvious to mention) I would have to say some of the days we have recently spent in Switzerland would have to be right up there.
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Hmmm... that is a tricky one. Zombies are way cooler than a mummy but I don't think I would want to be a zombie. Mummies are traditionally self aware and have all kinds of cool powers. Zombies on the other hand only seem to exist to feed our desire for mindless violence. I think I will have to go with a Mummy.
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About 7 hours. Although I also like to have a short nap in the day.
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Its so hard to pick a best day. It's too easy to forget a day that was stunning at the time. However my most memorable day was on Castaway Cay a small Caribbean island owned by Disney. I lay in a hammock enjoying the sun, swam with stingrays, went out on a 'boat' and ate gorgeous food. It really was s tropical paradise.
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Obviously there is no perfect app. What different people want from the same app varies widely. What I want isn't going to be the same as what somebody else wants.
That said, at the minute there is no mac twitter app that really excites me. The problem is this; you can either have great design or good functionality but not both.
This is a problem that exists across a lot of apps and I think it comes down to who is driving the apps development. Is it a designer or a developer?
There are mac twitter apps out there which have obviously been design driven. Tweetie is a great example of this. The functionality is fairly basic but it looks beautiful.
Then there are apps developed by techies. These apps generally stuffed with features but lack the gorgeous UX that makes it a pleasurable experience. Tweetdeck is a good example. An incredibly powerful app but looks as ugly as hell.
What I want is something that has the UX of tweetie but includes more functionality like filters and scheduled posts.
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If you have followed my blog for any length of time you will now I'm an enormous fan of getting things done.
One of the principals from that book is the idea of getting stuff out of your head so that you are not constantly worrying about it.
You can't stop yourself thinking about work in your spare time, however you can prevent yourself from endlessly worrying about it by getting it out of your head and down onto paper so that you can be confident it will not be forgotten.
I do this by using a task manager that contains absolutely every action I might wish to take whether in my personal life or at work. My tool of choice is Omnifocus although I know of a number of other products that are equally good.
Whenever a thought relating to work pops into my head I immediately recording it into Omnifocus using my iPhone, ipad or desktop computer. Once it is written down I can be confident that I don't need to think about it again until I return to work.
In short, you can't stop yourself thinking about work but you can prevent yourself worrying about it and wasting more time than necessary dwelling on it. -
Originality. Somebody who is drawing his or inspiration from beyond the web. Too many portfolios look very similar with designs that are seen on hundreds of websites.
I also want to see work done for real projects and for real clients. This shows that the designer can work within a brief and deliver an appropriate solution. The portfolio should tell me something of the back story and approach taken.
I am also looking for somebody who can articulate the approach they have taken towards the work in their portfolio. It's important to be able to explain why you have done what you have. -
Start with smaller events such as one of the many free meetups that happen all the time. It's much easier to get talking to people at these.
I would also say that you are not alone in finding social situations like this difficult. I think a lot of web designers do. You are almost certain to meet other likeminded people at these smaller events.
Give it a try. It is worth the effort. You will come away encouraged, motivated and you are guaranteed to learn something new. -
The most important aspect of web design has always been and will always be business objectives. At the end of the day this is all that matters. Sure we want to please users but we only wish to please them in order to fulfil our business objectives.
As for design, development, marketing, search engine optimisation, social media or indeed any other discipline you care to mention, these exist only to facilitate the business goals. -
Sounds like I have to talk my own medicine then!
Yes I am aware that sometimes I come across as arrogant. Most of the time that is self deprecating but I understand not everybody gets my rather bizarre sense of humour.
The problem I have is that I find the attention I get quite embarrassing. Also (as I said in my recent talk), like a lot of web designers I am not the most socially comfortable person. The way that I cope is to joke about how great I am. Its a tongue in cheek response.
However, I would say there is a difference between how I behave with the web design community and how I work with my clients.
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Get Satisfaction offers great customer feedback and is easy to integrate with your site.
As for analytics, I go with Google Analytics for the basic stuff but thing anything more advance has to be bespoke. -
Get Satisfaction offers great customer feedback and is easy to integrate with your site.
As for analytics, I go with Google Analytics for the basic stuff but thing anything more advance has to be bespoke. -
I am a man of simple tastes. It\'s mature cheddar for me.
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I am a man of simple tastes. It\'s mature cheddar for me.
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I don't believe it is just your generation is. I believe it is something that seems widespread across our culture as I whole.
Perhaps apathetic isn't the right word. Selfish maybe better. We only seem motivated if it benefits our self interests.
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There are so many people I would like to meet from Christian leaders in countries like China where they cannot openly practice their faith to those that have given up so much to serve others to charity organisations around the world. There are also great thinkers I would like to speak with like Malcom Gladwell or Dan Ariely. However if I could pick only one person I have to confess I would like to meet Barak Obama. Not only is he an incredible speaker who is very good at tapping into the emotions of his audience he also managed to mobilise one of the biggest grassroots campaigns ever known in American political history. I'm fascinated by people that can create such passion in others and can motivate others into taking action especially in such an apathetic generation. Finally I would like to discover what makes a man think he can run a country let alone one as powerful as the United States of America. I imagine it must take a certain type of ego that would drive you so hard & long towards such a high goal.
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In the day mainly squash or water. I used to drink loads of coke cola but have now all but cut that out of my diet.
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I think my biggest pet peeve about the web industry is that we can be quite an arrogant lot, who thinks anybody that doesn't understand the Internet is an idiot.
We treat our clients like they're stupid, refer to our users as if they are morons, and resent friends and family asking us the technical help. Even our comedy and humour revolves around how stupid the rest of the world is. You only need to read a few Dilbert strips or watch an episode of the IT crowd to see how condescending we are about people that don't get technology.
Why we expect everybody to be as confident on the Internet as we are is quite beyond me. I think it is time for us to learn some humility and stop being so arrogant -
I don\'t think I have any really. Regret is for other people. I rarely look back. If i screw up (which I do often) I try to make amend and move on.
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I have football with a passion.
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Paul Boag’s Bio
Founder of web design agency Headscape, host of the boagworld web design podcast and author of the website owners manual.
