Tag: notes

Designing Vesper to guide the users

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How can app design can steer users to using apps in a certain way? A nice write up from the designers of Vesper, a minimalist note taking app for the iPhone: If you’re really good at what you do, it looks easy. But easy is tough to sell to clients, so we designers develop bad habits in order to make our work look impressive. Early on with Vesper, we realized that the existing design was okay, but felt cheap, like it was built using the same visual tricks everyone uses to make something look designed. As it happened, we were

How To Prepare For ‘Spontaneous’ Interviews

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Mixing up the regular posts I do over at the Creative Choices Blog, and my coverage of the Edinburgh Fringe, I’ve been talking there this week about how I prepare for my interviews… the ones that sound rather scattershot and improvised, but still get to the point in the time needed… Many years ago, while doing some work at a local talk radio station, I was told by the lead presenter one of the lessons that was passed on to him… “preparation, dear boy, preparation, that is the key.” It’s a rule that I certainly take to heart, and one