All the OmniGraffle users out there will want to check out Todd Moy's list of tips and tricks that all OG power users need to know. The character replacement one in particular will save you time. Although I tend to just clone an entire object's style the style brush with W and OPT+W, you should definitely learn about cloning discrete styles with chicklets. You'll wonder you never did.
Check them all out on Viget Advance and level up your OG skills.
Two great slides from Yiibu's presentation, Letting Go, a talk about design in an time of increasing disruption.
"Issuing your customers with something that is rough, incomplete, and possibly even substandard seems counterintuitive but there is growing evidence that people don't necessarily want the perfect product. They prefer to deal with something ragged around the edges that they can adapt or improve."
— Martin Thomas in "Loose: The Future of Business is Letting Go"
"The best designs will set the stage, but stop short of fully defining the experience."
— Adam Silver, Frog Design
Awesome presentation deck. Would have loved to see and hear it in person. See the full presentation here.
It's been about 3 years since I updated the printable graph paper PDFs I provide for user interface design sketching. You can download the printable PDFs from here. (Yes, I use the word "Here" in links.)
In the last year I've gotten a lot of requests to replenish the inventory of wireframe and storyboard graphpaper notepads that I fulfilled via Amazon.com, and the wirebound sketch books. I feel bummed every time I tell people that I decided to get out of that little business. It seems enough people still like to use them. I've even been told via Amazon comments that the storyboard notepads were being used by animators and filmmakers, which is a lovely full-circle I think.
In any case, I updated the graph paper page to provide PDFs of the very Illustrator files my offset printer used to create the final run of wireframe and storyboard notepads that were sold on Amazon. I also now provide an 8-up page. In an upcoming article I'm going to show you how you can print and bind your own notebooks from these. I think it's more satisfying anyway to do it yourself and have only enough paper on hand for what you need.
Enjoy. More to come. Get the updated graph paper.