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Building a Visual Resume
"The most brilliant examples I've seen, come from graphical or art designers. They are showcasing fonts, styles or other visuals. The problem is, I'm not into design jobs, and creating a resume that visual, will not send the right message."
Ditch the Resume; Make a Chart Instead
"We all know it: Polish that resume all you want, but it's gonna be "read" for 10 seconds, tops. So it makes a lot of sense to ditch the resume altogether, and create a chart instead. "
Active Learning Classrooms Pilot Evaluation at the University of Minnesota
The goal for these new learning spaces was to create a student-centered, integrated, and active learning
space using flexible design and innovative construction techniques. These pilot learning spaces provide new and innovative classrooms, demonstrate new flexible classroom construction techniques, and allow faculty and students to experience and assess new classroom designs and pedagogy.
Carbonmade : Your online portfolio.
With Carbonmade, you can manage your online portfolio with a variety of tools that allow you to change how you display your work. The core idea behind the design of Carbonmade is to keep your images or video at the forefront.
Leading Design for Assignments in Sakai 3
"Attached is a synthesis of these various sources, arranged around flows of assignment activities and the users centrally engaged with them."
13 Excellent Open Source Tools for Web Designers
"Open source applications and tools are a great alternative for web designers on a budget. Many open source tools have comparable features to the expensive applications, and are also free"
3akai Round Two
Some of the graphics here are meant to be suggestive rather than precise (e.g. the lines of connection between types of users aren’t meant to show specific relationships), but if you don’t harp on the detail it’s a nice sweep of the ecosystem.
Help Remedies - Excellent Package Design!
Thanks to Richard at Help Remedies for sending us the package designs for their new products. This is one of the best examples of product concept and design. From the naming down to the witty copy and simple, clean design, it doesn’t get much better than this.
5 Common Visual Design Mistakes
He made some mistakes that are common to many of the courses I see. I thought I’d do a quick rundown of what they are and provide some tips on how to prevent them.
Warmer, Fuzzier - The Refreshed Logo
Behold the new breed of corporate logo — non-threatening, reassuring, playful, even child-like. Not emblems of distant behemoths, but faces of friends.
Real or Imaginary: The effectiveness of using personas in product design
The principle aim of this pilot study was to assess whether using personas as a design tool in the product development process would lead to more user-centred designs. It can be justifiably claimed at the outset that there are positive benefits associated with using the technique and this claim is evident from the analysis of the student design work, the student survey and the focus group feedback from the students and their tutors.
Scott McCloud on comics
In this unmissable look at the magic of comics, Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions whiz through childhood fascinations and imagined futures that our eyes can hear and touch.
Issuu - You Publish
Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.
Learning Spaces at Penn State
Collaborative learning spaces are comfortable, attractive, and quiet work areas with furnishings and technology designed to encourage students to collaborate on projects, study together, and share ideas.
These Lectures Are Gone in 60 Seconds
At San Juan, microlectures were introduced in a new online degree program in occupational safety in the fall and are now expanding to subjects like reading, tribal governance, and veterinary studies.
design by committee vs design by community (things we learned from the Drupal.org project)
Many of us have suffered design by committee, which is really it's own special circle of hell, in which a group of somewhere between 3-12 (usually) stakeholders with various levels of authority (actual or effective) provide copious and detailed feedback to your designs - feedback that often conflicts either with itself, or with the objectives of the project, or just with the principles of good design.
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