Designers Who Design Things

"Modern day user experience research methods can now answer a wide range of questions. Knowing when to use each method can be understood by mapping them in 3 key dimensions and across typical product development phases." - imabonehead via Bookmarklet

I actually have done of a good job of following these "rules" in the past without even knowing it! - orionstarr

The first two should apply to website design as well - Nick Humphries

"several months ago I began sending images to my good friend in Los Angeles, Clive Piercy — odd and interesting things I had found online that day. Each morning, before starting work, I would spend 30 minutes looking for visuals that were beautiful, funny, absurd and yet inspiring. I am continually amazed at the millions of images we have at our fingertips: design history, architecture, photography, ephemera and information. Gradually I added other friends and colleagues to an email list I called "Today," and over the following months it became a kind of obsession. Every day I was trying to find even more of this wonderful material, images that made me smile or that inspired me. Most designers are pack rats and collectors; it is our nature to see rather than just look and these images become a part of our everyday lives." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

"The coatrack 'superemma' is a homage to the classical trolleys and brings with its striking statement the joy of consumption into your house. The elaborate construction of the chronium-plated steel framework creates the basic for jolly hanging up. Also fashion accessory and umbrellas find their place at the coatrack 'superemma'. Designer: Nik Back and Alexander Stamminger (Germany) Manufacturer: maigrau (Germany)" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

"The Sandbox is a theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned, so beginners will feel comfortable styling it since they only need to know CSS. More experienced designers will drool at the rich semantic markup and profusion of classes, dynamically generated by a few functions." - Matt Harwood via Bookmarklet

Sweet, is there a live demo? I don't see a link... - Shey

Here's a demo, Shey, this page is running stock sandbox: http://www.plaintxt.org/themes... , and my pixiful blog is based on sandbox http://pixiful.com - Matt Harwood

Some really amazing logos in here, if you click the link the site has where you can look at every page of logos. - orionstarr

"4 different sized cups with a wave-formed base that fit into a wave formed tray Designer: Joanne Windaus (Germany)" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

"SCULPTOR / FURNITURE DESIGNER TORONTO http://www.rickivey.com/" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

http://jermbo.deviantart.com/a... this one personal.. for my girls dance group what do you think? - Jeremy "Jermbo" Lawson via twhirl

A new fulltext search engine for a 3 million record database, mainly because I'm having problems getting the indexer (Sphinx) to function properly. - Andrew Leyden

In between jobs or just when I'm looking for some creative inspiration I'll often just throw together art elements in Illustrator and make crazy things. Print them out and put by my computer. Kind of fun! - orionstarr

nonetheless I think there has to be a good base there to provoke the consumer into action - Lindsey Smith

I usually check logolounge.com here and there for logo ideas I find that helps. - orionstarr

logo pond is also good orion - Lindsey Smith

Okay this so awesome! I'm grabbing this for my blog. - orionstarr

I wanted to give a shout out for my favorite quick office design trick - Blik! The giant robots are just one of 100s of designs, including some of your favorites from Threadless, in big beautiful sticker form. I have gotten 5 different designs so far, and love them all. - Nadine Schaeffer via Bookmarklet

i am - John Cozen

I'm going to wait till the end of the year to upgrade. And yes, CS3 came out only last year - Shey

I need to upgrade my ram before I install it anyways. - orionstarr

"When I went to grade school, I always envied the cool kids with their 4 color pens. This CMYK Pen by Roman Lubimov is for those kids who became designers." - joneilortiz via Bookmarklet

That is quite the observation, I used one as a kid and look I am designer now! - orionstarr

This post has inspired me to jazz up mine... - Matt Harwood via Bookmarklet

Gosh me to, Mine could use some jazzing up! - orionstarr

Redesigning our bedroom soon... might take some inspiration, great post, thanks!! - Matt Harwood

Thanks. If you're looking for ideas, check out the site. It helps to see what someone else's room looks like before doing your own! haha - Natitude

Ha! Such a great idea. My home décor is something I always like to be nonconformist .. :-) Thanks again! - Matt Harwood

"Taste MOMEnts is a travelling exhibition of work by young designers on the Hungarian scene that landed in the crypt of Saint Martins in the Fields during the London Design Festival." - Matt Harwood via Bookmarklet

"This refined 2-blade ceiling fan is a contemporary design from cleverly-named fan specialists, Fanimation. The simplified 2-blade design will fit anywhere in the modern urban space. Named Involution, the smart fan pictured here combines both a lighting, and a fan function." - joneilortiz via Bookmarklet

Wow, that's cool. I wonder how much weight it can actually support. - Jon West

"Once the all-purpose seat of factory and assembly line, our highly adaptable steel stool—modeled on those ingenious originals—comes home for a little R&R. Imbued with 20th-century industrial artistry and a streamlined modern sensibility, making for a peerless addition to atelier or office, bedroom or veranda. Hammered seat, tripod base. Adjustable height. Exclusive. Additional shipping, $10. 14"W x 14-1/2"D x 22"–28"H." - joneilortiz via Bookmarklet