Salesforce Automation System

Ideas vs. Ideology and the “Strategy Table”
Andrew Hinton talks about the need to balance strategy and design.

Build those sketching muscles!
Learn how to sketch like a pro with these great tutorials

Sticky-Note Ninja’s eye.

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the Earth yet?

Designing UI remotely
A great post on developing UI and other elements in a de-centralized situation.

Eradicating TB with … cell phone minutes?
Take mobile telephones into the developing world and cure epidemics. This is brilliant.

The future of the desktop
Everything is moving to the cloud… it’s soft and cottony there.

The Microchip Turns 50 Today, Here’s the Original
50 years ago today, Texas Instrument’s Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working integrated circuit, or microchip. The birthplace is now a fruit and vegetable stand.

The Adaptive City is the title of an excellent essay by Dan Hill on recent ideas around urban informatics and urban information design, the impact of real-time data and collaborative planning on urban form, and most of all the changing role and new empowerment of people living in these cities. (via Putting People First)