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Pi'ikea St. - We love to make things that make kids happy!

http://www.piikeastreet.com/ This project is ideal for those kiddos who are obsessed with dinosaurs. You can easily replace the baby dino with another reptile, of course. But who can resist the sweet, innocent face of a newborn T-Rex?
Nearly everyone talks about putting more of their documents in the cloud.

DocTrackr lets you control your documents — wherever they are — Cloud Computing News

http://gigaom.com/cloud/doctrackr-lets-you-control-your-documents-wherever-they-are/
Ronald Brown is a successful startup CEO with an extensive background in technology and consumer marketing. His new book, Anticipate. The Architecture of Small Team Innovation and Product Success is available via iTunes, Amazon , Barnes & Noble , and Kobo . Creativity is the main prerequisite for innovation. However, our culture emphasizes critical thinking to the near exclusion of creative thinking (although it was the key to success in the Information Age). Today’s business is dominated by global complexity and commoditization.

Product Development: 9 Steps for Creative Problem Solving [INFOGRAPHIC]

http://mashable.com/2011/09/30/creative-problem-solving/

22 Essential Tools for Testing Your Website's Usability

http://mashable.com/2011/09/30/website-usability-tools/ The Web Design Usability Series is supported by join.me , an easy way to instantly share your screen with anyone. join.me lets you collaborate on-the-fly, put your heads together super-fast and even just show off. A site’s ease of use, or its usability , is an integral part of its success, especially with websites becoming more and more interactive, complex and packed with features. User-centered design is all about building websites that fulfill the goals and desires of its users, and at the heart of this concept is that a user must be able interact with your website effectively. Testing usability is an art and a science.
http://www.designworklife.com/2008/08/22/color-happy-4/ I saw this project on Behance awhile ago. Designed by Vash, it looks as though he has changed his pri­vacy set­tings or removed his account, so I can’t link to the orig­i­nal project site, unfor­tu­nately.

Color Happy 4

Today, webfonts abound. You can find them in a number of places: Google Font Directory, Typekit, Fontspring.com, and myriad other sites and font delivery services. http://webexpedition18.com/articles/top-13-webfonts-for-headline-use/

Top 13 Webfonts for Headline Use | webexpedition18

http://dzineblog.com/2010/03/25-useful-css3-techniques-and-tutorials.html

25 Useful CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials at DzineBlog.com - Design Blog & Inspiration

Css3 have a capacity to revolutionize the way we design/develop website. css3 is intoducing loads of new and exciting features. Most of the browsers such as Firefox, Safari already support some of the CSS3 properties It is essential today for a web designer to know about CSS3 and there are many tutorials and resources for the CSS3.
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[Ellen] Silverman’s images show the kitchens as she finds them.

Veri - Learn. Teach. Play.

http://www.veri.com/ While the process of using Veri has altered your consciousness, you are still irrevocably human. Ergo some of these questions you will understand and others you will not.

8 of the Best Chrome Extensions for Web Designers

http://mashable.com/2010/04/14/chrome-extensions-web-design/ This series is supported by Wix.com , an online design tool that enables you to create limitless amounts of Flash websites, social network layouts, and more.

Issuu - You Publish

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This post is a condensed overview of principles I taught to undergraduates at Princeton University in 1998 at a seminar called the “PX Project”. The below was written several years ago, so it’s worded like Ivy-Leaguer pompous-ass prose, but the results are substantial. In fact, while on an airplane in China two weeks ago, I helped Glenn McElhose increase his reading speed 34% in less than 5 minutes.

Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes

Everyone who works in an office has to deal with meetings.

Five Best Meeting Minutes Services

Email is broken. There’s too much of it, no one can agree on how to use it, it’s too easy to send, which encourages a glut of CYA CCing, and there are spammers.

Should You Send That Email? Here's A Flowchart For Deciding | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

As both a consumer and curator of information, I spend a great deal of time thinking about the architecture of knowledge .

Introducing The Curator's Code: A Standard for Honoring Attribution of Discovery Across the Web | Brain Pickings