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The Art of Momentum: Why Your Ideas Need Speed. In his wonderful book Musicophilia, neurologist Oliver Sacks describes Clive Wearing, a musician and musicologist whose memory was erased almost entirely after a severe brain infection.

The Art of Momentum: Why Your Ideas Need Speed

Post-trauma, Clive’s short-term memory lasted only a matter of seconds. Sacks writes, “He remembers almost nothing unless he is actually doing it, then it may come to him.” Yet Clive’s musical self, his performative self, remained almost completely intact. It just needed to be activated. When playing music or conducting a choir, Clive could re-attain his former virtuosity. We are perhaps not so different from Clive when it comes to creative projects. And I Quote... picture on VisualizeUs. How to Start a Successful NGO in 10 Steps. Photo by Ryan Libre .

How to Start a Successful NGO in 10 Steps

Ryan Libre explains how to start a successful NGO. Editor’s Note: In response to the overwhelming number of comments, author Ryan Libre has asked us to post this update on April 4, 2010: “It is amazing to see how many people have seen and commented on this article. It is well beyond my expectations.Most all of the 200+ commenters seemed to have overlooked steps 1-6 and went to funding as the beginning point for starting an NGO.This approach will not be successful, in the short term or long term.First, you need to do something, anything, yourself with what is locally available (step 1). Prototyping with XHTML. Illustrations by Leah Buley If you design user experiences for standards-based websites and applications (i.e. those built with XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript), there are several great reasons for adding XHTML prototyping to your UX tool kit.

Prototyping with XHTML

Perhaps you’ve found that traditional wireframes just aren’t sufficient and are looking for more powerful ways to explore and communicate design solutions. The Principles of Design. The web professional's online magazine of choice.

The Principles of Design

In: Columns > Design in Theory and Practice By Joshua David McClurg-Genevese Published on June 13, 2005 Starting with the Basics This column is about Web design—really, it is—though it may at times seem a bit distant and distracted. We can group all of the basic tenets of design into two categories: principles and elements. How to Design a Clean Business Website with Photoshop. The focus of this template is on a design agency that offers a range of web-based services.

How to Design a Clean Business Website with Photoshop

The primary aim of the page we’re designing, therefore, is to promote what the business does and what services they provide. This is the first part of a tutorial on building a clean business website. This first part will focus on creating the design in Photoshop, and in the second part, will focus on converting the PSD outcome to a working XHTML template. "Clean Business Website" Series Final Result.

Six Digital Trends To Watch by Steve Rubel and David Armano. Dynamic Systems Development Method. Model of the DSDM Atern project management method.

Dynamic Systems Development Method

Dynamic systems development method (DSDM) is an agile project delivery framework, primarily used as a software development method. First released in 1994, DSDM originally sought to provide some discipline to the rapid application development (RAD) method. In 2007 DSDM became a generic approach to project management and solution delivery. Development Management - Serena Software.

Serena helps global development organizations orchestrate application development across disparate platforms, departmental processes, and development tools.

Development Management - Serena Software

With Serena, customers have been able to dramatically accelerate software development, increase development efficiency, and reduce rework: Decreased manual effort to create and deploy a release by 90%Improved development productivity by 40%Shortened development and change cycle times by 50%Reduced software errors by 90% Serena helps IT organizations create a unified, flexible, and auditable development process that works with all tools, platforms, and processes throughout the entire application development lifecycle. Serena provides the industry’s only solution for managing software changes across mainframe, distributed and cloud environments. Tools. We acknowledge the contributions of Dora Lam and Rabi Achrafi to this list.

Tools

Please note that the list does not imply a recommendation, nor does omission imply that we disapprove of the tool. We urge you to carefully consider your requirements for a tool before looking at any of them. Some of these companies have demonstration versions available. Pete Jones of Phonak AG suggests that when reviewing tools, you give vendors five minutes to sell their tool.

That is, the vendor's site should be able to tell you in that amount of time what the tool can do for you. Tool Name: Accept 360°, version 4.0 Company Name: Accept Software, Inc. Contact Detail URL: Product Detail URL: Version 4.0 of Accept's industry-leading solution for enterprise product planning extends Accept 360°'s functionality into Design, as well as adding exciting new features in Strategic Planning, reports and analysis, and core platform capabilities. Flowers, Florist Flower Delivery - Send Flowers Online - Teleflora. Ge.tt. XHP: A New Way to Write PHP. Are You Ambitious Enough? Admit it: you’re ambitious.

Are You Ambitious Enough?

Don’t worry, I’m not going to ask you to proclaim your ambitions in the comments. But if you read the 99U and use the Behance Network, you’re here because you want to learn, you want to improve your professional skills, you want to keep your finger on the pulse of the creative industries. You want to compare your work with that of your peers and emulate the success of your heroes.

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