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Getty Images has a fun new tool where you can create a sort of stream-of-consciousness video based on Getty images and clips. If you are in the middle of a day of coding/scripting and are ready for an interesting break, try this out!

Courtesy of Getty Images.

This looks interesting. I’ve got both a Del.icio.us and a Magnolia account, but I never use them. Maybe LaterThis will do the trick.

BMW’s GINA model… exploring what might happen to the design of a vehicle if we reconsidered its skin.

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Link Source: How to Make Good Design Decisions by Dan Saffer

So I’m imagining the actors as clients… and their physical orientation as the direction of their opinions… and wondering what I’d do if the elevator were actually a conference room, and I was presenting my opinions… perhaps about a new design. What about you?

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“The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.”

Source: Christopher Alexander on the difference between a fifty-year-old carpenter and a novice

I haven’t dug too deeply into GoodBerry yet, but I’ve seen enough to make me wonder. Are the “website in a box” solutions that seem to be growing in popularity something to be embraced by the design and development community, or should we continue to promote an ultra-customized, higher budget approach? I have to say that there is something really appealing about the high feature / low cost aspect of solutions like ExpressionEngine, Joomla!, WordPress, GoodBarry, and others.

From the design side, I can always sell a customized interface, but what about the application side? Then again, much like stock photography, what if my client is bent on something from TemplateMonster.com? Does this trend bother you? Either way, how have you chosen to adapt?

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