Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category

Lessons Learned from Pixar

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I took Jeff Atwodd’s advice and watched Ed Catmull of Pixar: “Keep your crises small”. A presentation about lessons learned from successes and crises at Pixar. A central quote: If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they’ll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they’ll fix […]

Don’t Repeat Yourself (Unless Reading Book)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

After reading Pragmatic Programmer at my recent vacation, I immediately found an urge to repeat myself and read it again.

Ironic that one of the most popular tips from it is “Don’t repeat yourself”.

The Dark Side of Information Architecture

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Dark side of IA

Data Visualisation

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

What a treasury of old and new maps, images, graphs — all you can imagine. www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/ (found via wikipedia: information graphics) Actually, I’m in the middle of preparing a workshop where some of these visualizations can serve as background inspiration material. Update later same day: Add to this the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods: Just […]