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Signposts for the Week Ending August 29, 2008

by Adaptive Path

Signposts, y’all. Have a wonderful three-day weekend!

How Pixar fosters creativity
Pixar founder Ed Catmull shares key elements of their creative process. One of the most important things we’ve read all year.

This is not my beautiful house
Chris Heathcote challenges our thinking on what is experience design.

Hallucinogenic eye candy USB lollies take your brain to that special place, for real
Using taste to simulate sight, and other trippy concepts.

Can in-house design departments be respectable?
Special challenges for in-house designers, and what to do about them. Be forewarned: soft skills required.

How Buildings Learn, the video
The BBC series based on Stewart Brand’s excellent book. Watch all six parts for free on Google Video.

UX Week sketchnotes
Missed UX Week? No problem. Check out these beautiful and illustrative sketches from one UX Week attendee.

The future is data bases
It’s 1975 and this man is about to show you the future. Future visioning from IBM. 30 years ago.

Visual guide to version control
Version control, and why you should care. At last, it makes sense.

Oh, don’t forget
Oh, how we love this. Send yourself text message reminders.

Time lapse video of slime mold
In honor of Adaptive Path’s spirit animal (slime mold) and the little yellow mushroom seen growing in a houseplant around our office, we honor the beauty of spores.

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