Link Drop (Week 44)

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• All The Cheat Sheets That A Web Developer Needs | Top Design Magazine - Web Design and Digital Content
• Competing on easy by Jason Fried of 37signals "[T]he part of easy I like is when you take an existing problem, study it until it becomes clear, toss out everything that makes it blurry, and carefully polish what’s left over."
• If the government can do it…. (a love letter to Gov.uk) | disambiguity
• Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction | DVICE
• Clear For Mac Coming Next Week with iCloud Sync, Updated iPhone App
• Optimal Workshop Interactive infographic by Andrew Mayfield quantifying value of UX design and making the world a better place.
• Why Design: Sam Hecht and Kim Colin "We need contrast and tension to be able to create." I love how these designers talk about these factors of their design environment and the balance that comes out of tension. I think about these ideas in terms of my workspace, and try to seek out the same sense of interior and exterior space, quiet solitude inside and energy outside, detail and larger context, closeness and vastness. It reminds of what Bruce Springsteen said about keeping 2 opposing ideas in your head at one time.
• The Four Quadrants of Time Management « Alex Czartoryski's Blog The Four Quadrants of Time is a time management matrix popularized by Stephen Covey in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It is a way to help one understand and manage how you spend your time by assigning Urgency and Importance to the things you do.
• SVG Fallback, Vertical Rhythm, CSS Project Structure | Smashing Coding
• Soulver | Acqualia Zen spreadsheets.
• Getting Started with Responsive Web Design - A Dummies Guide