@nickf called me out for not having iPad templates in the Konigi OmniGraffle Wireframe Template, so I got off my lazy ass and added some since this thing hasn't been updated in over 2 years! Added iPad Portrait 1 up, iPad Portrait 2 up, iPad Landscape 1 up. They have guides for 2x2 or 3x3 grid.
Note, this is for OmniGraffle Pro ONLY. You will not be able to edit shared layers to modify the headers and other templates. Get yours.
Seth Godin's blog often talks about where successful ideas come from, and in this post talks about bypassing the need to make huge leaps in innovation by synthesizing what we know and have learned from history, using Palm as the cautionary tale.
It's not enough to be aware of the domain you're working in, you need to understand it. Noticing things and being curious about how they work is the single most common trait I see in creative people. Once you can break the components down, you can put them back together into something brand new.
This is why we are constantly doing competitive monitoring and analysis of the products in the industries we work in. At times I feel kind of crazed signing up for betas out there, because the speed at which they appear now is overwhelming. I just have to remind myself that it's ok to spend the time if there's some research value, and then quit.
Whether we're just looking at the landscape from a high level, or deeply investigating and deconstructing how things work, continually expanding or improving domain knowledge is always going to be an important activity for us as designers.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/08/bypassing-the-leap.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fsethsmainblog+%28Seth%27s+Blog%29
So I'm working on this hand drawn font and looking at characters with diacritics is having a weird effect on me. While working on it, the รถ character reminded me of something from my childhood and I had to remake it in type.
So if you can guess what this is by @ing me on Twitter or in G+ if we follow each other there, I'll give you a floppy disk notebook from my stash, and a few sketch pads. Game on. Happy Friday.
@dakotareese came closest within minutes, then @emenel and @sjaa guessed it.
The inspiration was the Martians, aka Yip Yips, from Sesame Street:
I don't know how he got so close with just nothing but those 3 letters to go by, but @dakotaresse wins the prize if he wants it. And if you're curious, it's Futura in the middle flanked by Gill Sans.
