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With Skype being widely used by businesses for overseas calls, the other equally used function of Skype Chat (Instant Messaging) is getting its fair share of use. Not to mention the usual favorites in the IM world: MSN messenger and Yahoo messenger (which many companies do ban the use of). However such IM (Instant Messaging) activities are a nightmare in the project management of any programs that require formal documentation such as design refinements, project constraints and approvals. This is especially problematic when projects involve many participants from different locations, may it be locally or globally.
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I must apologies dear readers for the lack of posts recently as I faced the harsh realties of blogging. I really don’t know how people do it? That is, run and maintain multiple websites or blogs as well as their own day to day lives. Just this week and last week alone, I have been plagued with work, having personal projects coming to head, daily late night childcare arrangements and a snowball effect of having to maintain all my 6 different sites in one go.
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Since I moved to Sydney, I have experienced a state of mind that most designers who become freelancers or decide to go at it on their own as an entrepreneur would. This state of mind is the loss of interaction with other designers. This loss of bubbling creativity commonly found in a design studio environment, or in other words the loss of the ability to bounce ideas back and forth that makes doing design solo so difficult. So much so that many designers who are unaware of this cannot understand why their work suffers.
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Some fun tests to get you past your monday blues!
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This is just too funny not to share!
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I really know how to beat my self up. As I have a few meet ups planned with designer friends and members of the design community here in Sydney in the next couple of weeks, I stupidly decided to re-do my portfolio in the midst of spring cleaning and potty training my son. After 4 late nights, of which the last night kept me up to 2am, my son decided to pull my big toe at 3.30am, 4.30am and 6.45am this morning. Murphy’s law dishes out punishment too easily.
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When I first looked at it I felt “this is a cool list of design schools” listed at business week. Then reality started to sink in, D-School? Wait, nobody calls a design school “D-School” except a business school teaching design.
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Here is the official press release of the Nissan Design Forum that I mentioned that I was invited to be a moderator off. A little late, but found it actually by googling my name. Oh the vanity!
Check out my ugly mug towards the end of the page, taken while having a chat with the ever witty Wykidd Song, from Song and Kelly fame.
I’ve never expected it, but its seems that I’m…
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Wow its pretty amazing the rounds this Z-List meme is making. Recently Seth Godin, the marketing guru, has picked up on this phenomenon and posted all of us at his Squidoo site.
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