http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog redesign the world Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:32:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/02/02/february-20th-i-am-going-back-to-school/ http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/02/02/february-20th-i-am-going-back-to-school/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:32:46 +0000 ross http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/?p=680

Even though I have a bachelors and masters, on February 20th, I’m enrolling back into a university… sort of. I’ve signed up for Udacity’s computer science 101 class. And so should you! You may remember that he was part of an initiative last fall that offered three free Stanford computer science courses to the world. More than 160,000 [...]]]> http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/02/02/february-20th-i-am-going-back-to-school/feed/ 0 http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/31/song-of-the-day-electric-light-orchestras-without-someone/ http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/31/song-of-the-day-electric-light-orchestras-without-someone/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:54:59 +0000 ross http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/?p=682 http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/31/song-of-the-day-electric-light-orchestras-without-someone/feed/ 0 http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/19/597/ http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/19/597/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:25:54 +0000 ross http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/?p=597 http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/19/597/feed/ 0 http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/10/designing-for-documentation-vs-designing-for-development/ http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/10/designing-for-documentation-vs-designing-for-development/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:38:02 +0000 ross http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/?p=584

photo credit: riddle_ Let’s talk for a moment about design “artifacts” (or  ”deliverables” or “documentation” or whaever you call them.) They take up a lot of time. I’ve worked on some projects where, by the time we’ve done dozens of wireframes in high-detail, we could have coded a working prototype of our idea. But if [...]]]> http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/10/designing-for-documentation-vs-designing-for-development/feed/ 0 http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/06/how-to-pitch-your-product-in-30-seconds/ http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/06/how-to-pitch-your-product-in-30-seconds/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:33:45 +0000 ross http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/?p=507 http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2012/01/06/how-to-pitch-your-product-in-30-seconds/feed/ 0 http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2011/12/20/presentation-and-startups-101-from-steve-blank/ http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2011/12/20/presentation-and-startups-101-from-steve-blank/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:27:41 +0000 ross http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/?p=500

Hey, future business partners!! Have five minutes? Browse through this awesome slideshare preso on the very fundamentals of business models.]]> http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2011/12/20/presentation-and-startups-101-from-steve-blank/feed/ 0 http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2011/12/20/startupli-st-a-web-startup-for-everything/ http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2011/12/20/startupli-st-a-web-startup-for-everything/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:17:38 +0000 ross http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/?p=497

If you take a quick browse through startupli.st I think you’ll agree, there seems to be a web start-up for just about everything these days. Any niche consumer need or behavior imaginable. Which begs the question — who is going to use all these? How are all these individual properties looking to become profitable? I [...]]]> http://www.annoyingdesign.org/blog/2011/12/20/startupli-st-a-web-startup-for-everything/feed/ 0