Fascinating New Infographic

Perhaps we should look at this first when we examine the graphical display of information.

Original here.

More on Productivity from Ray

Fred,

I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of the Pomodoro Technique.

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Ray DeLaPena
UX Architect
Lab49

Interesting Colour Picker

colrpickr. Not new, but still interesting. It uses an array of Flickr images. Worth a play.

Facebook pagination

Did they just change the pagination method? Why?

Ed Clayforth-Carr announces new Blog

User Experience Designer and Quality Evangelist Ed Clayforth-Carr will relaunch his blog at 11:00 am GMT today after a hiatus of more than 2 years. The initial launch of Ed’s Fantabulous Cavalcade of Whimsey will be a rather plain affair, design wise, but that is entirely intentional on his part to highten the effect of his planned redesigns.

Apple really has a problem with Flash

New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler at Daring Fireball.

Mark Plant first in UK to break iPad

Despite his best efforts to protect the device while in his bag, this was the result:

So, the lesson from this: Get a good, rugged case for yours.

New UX Heuristic Method article by Bill Scott

Designing with Lenses. I’m still digesting this, but I find it a very interesting approach.

Personal Digital Workflow

Rick Winslow (rwinslow@lab49.com) tells us in response to my previous post on Productivity:

Mark Hurst is a NYC UX guy who wrote this primer on managing personal digital workflow: http://bitliteracy.com/

Most of it is probably a bit rudimentary for folks at the Lab, as it is aimed toward a wide audience. But he describes a system for managing email, todos and media diet that I have found to be very practical and effective. He also advocates the practice of maintaining an empty inbox, which I think is pretty sensible.

Thanks Rick.

Gender differentiation of Colour Identification

Here is the Chart.  I am very skeptical about the science behind this.