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competitive analysis article about using the hamburger icon as the menu button - talks about how to avoid losing it in the header (good visual design advice)

SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying visual sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation.

BBC Global Visual Language (PDF)

Visual board of submitted links: couture, food, liquor, adventures, etc

This is a really fun app, and makes some pretty cool color schemes using photos you take on your phone.

Interesting article about Pinterest with interview from one of the founders.

What are you left with when the color is taken out of your design? Do the areas of focus still hold up, or does contrast between elements? Make sure your original hierarchical decisions still hold up when you take out the color.

A brand experience model. It's convoluted in some places but still pretty interesting.

I think I need to see this as a giant poster to get the full meaning behind it. Seems very interesting tho. pdfs r harrdd

Unwritten visual problem solving rule number one says this: "Whoever best describes the problem is the person most likely to solve the problem." So the idea is this. If one of us were to go running into the boss's office and say, "Oh my god, the sky is falling ‑ give me money to fix it," they'll probably throw us out. But if we went into the room and we said, "Look. I've created this map and it identifies who's involved in this particular problem, how many of them are there, where are these things involved or these things involved, how do they overlap, when do they intersect and how do they intersect." All of a sudden, the solution to the problem is probably going to be already very clear