Over the past 4 years I’ve come up with my own idea of what works in terms of design. I came across this post on Bokardo.com’s blog.

His premise is that Art and design are two different things and that a designer should know the difference. I agree completely and I have to say that the 5 principles of design as he puts it mimic my own thoughts on the subject.

I can’t claim to always abide by this rule myself because when you get caught up in a project you stray from your ideals for different reasons. In a lot of cases you forget about them for a while but when you do apply this one, I think you end up with the best solution for the end user and that’s the most important thing.

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

I saw this post on Duct Tape Marketing and it got me thinking, maybe its time to try Mac.

I’m hearing way to many good things about the Mac to ignore it anymore. I’m at a stage were I’m thinking of buying a new Laptop for home that I can use for doing a bit of work (Web application Development). I’ve never used a Mac properly at all. When I was younger the reason I wouldn’t buy a Mac was because I couldn’t use some of the more popular software that was only available on windows.

I think I’d like a Mac once I got used to it, my question really is will windows Vista be good enough to keep me using it instead? What to do, what to do …

UseAMap.com is a simple Google maps mashup service that has just been launched. Its pretty straight forward, you create a short name for a location and add directions to a place which is then marked on a map, e.g. http://useamap.com/jeebers. You can then email from the site a link to your new map for others to view.

Vincent, who also works in Jeebers and on 1time with me, created this service. Without being biased, I have to say I really like services like this for its simplicity and usefulness, similar to http://futureme.org