Hi. My name is Dustin, and I’m addicted to notepads. I first realized I was addicted when I found myself prowling office supply stores in the wee hours of the afternoon, trying to score a college-ruled composition book. Pretty soon, I couldn’t go anywhere without my works – a battered red Moleskine and a black…

Productivity expert Jason Womack is working on a project aimed at teenagers on the careers of tomorrow.  He asked me to contribute a few ideas, and he graciously agreed to let me turn it into an article for Lifehack.org.  From where I sit, there are a couple of very broad categories in which people can…

“Oh no! Not another boring PowerPoint presentation! My eyes, my eyes…!!!” How much does it suck to be in the audience for yet another drawn-out, boring, lifeless slideshow? Worse yet, how much does it such to be the one giving it? The truth is, bad PowerPoint happens to good people, and quite often the person giving the…

I founded Lifehack.org in May, 2005, as a place to share the little tips and tricks, or “hacks” — that I and others had discovered to make their work flow a little more smoothly, a little more quickly, and little higher quality. By 2007, Lifehack.org had grown far beyond my original vision with just sharing what…

The power and ease-of-use of today’s computer applications has raised the bar drastically on the quality of design expected in the documents we produce. As recently as ten years ago, it was typical to produce business letters, memos, and other documents using a courier-like, monospaced typeface, often with only underlining available for emphasis of key…

When you are making websites, inevitably some form of sketching will be done to rough out it’s design and interactivity. Whether you’re the web designer or someone trying to communicate your ideas to a web designer, this little piece of software, called Denim, will come in handy. What Denim does is allow you to create a…

Normal Room is a Web site that lets users submit images of various rooms in their homes. Normal Room has amassed a large collection of designs from countries around the world. I think this is really unique and great resource if you are thinking of redecorating, building a home, setting up your office…

Previously we posted about 12 ways to use LinkedIn. Guy Kawasaki has again offered up his LinkedIn expertise. This time Guy gives a tutorial on how to drastically improve your LinkedIn profile. Leveraging the Director of Corporate Communications…

We’ve covered articles about how to improve your resume’s content. How about the design aspect of it? It is equally important to give a professional feeling. Another problem is that the design gets too fancy. LifeClever describes 7 deadly sins of resume design: Fancy “resumé” paper Times New Roman Teeny tiny font size Grey text Excessive decoration Weird paper…

Before Apple, personal computers seemed like a stupid idea. eBay was founded by some people looking for a web-facing way to trade and sell parts of their PEZ collection. Getting Things Done is nothing more than practical wisdom, years old in content, reskinned to meet the needs of people’s current conditions. So, how did they…

Anand Sharma shows us a process for designing websites. It’s a very detailed article, and it’s Part 1. If you have interest in designing web pages, this looks like a great place to really think it through. The first half (or often more than half) is the design. It all starts with an idea. You have…

Luke over at Functioning Form points us to a list of online design magazines. They would be useful to people interested in web design, usability, information architecture, art, and making things. Some of the titles Luke points us to are: Digital Web Magazine UX Matters A List Apart Treehouse PingMag The beauty of reading about design is that you often…

xBlog points us to a huge mountain of useful tools for web designers and graphic arts types. It’s exciting to see the list, because it sparks ideas of how you can use these tools for your own projects. Check this big list of tools out for yourself. Protolize Web Tools – [via xBlog]…

From Apartment Therapy, here’s a cool idea on decorating with post-its. The texture is actually pretty cool, you must admit. And apparently they say they haven’t fallen off yet. Still, I think I’d get myself in trouble using these for to-dos. Nick Senzee is membership director of a professional design society in the DC metro…

Jessie James Garrett gives us Six Design Lessons From the Apple Store, where he talks about the difference between experiences and artifacts, context, messaging, consistency, change, and the human element. Every single bit of this piece is a storm of microcontent for you to consider. There’s a lot about the Apple Store experience that we…