Mocking up a Wireframe

Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.

Mockingbird

Cunning online work of cunning Charities

A great article from Boagworld on how charities nudge you in the right direction when you visit their website.

Nudge Your Users In The Right Direction (Paul Boag on Boagworld)

I especially like the description of charities, borrowed from Blackadder:

...more cunning than a “fox what used to be professor of cunning at Oxford University but has moved on, and is now working for the UN as the High Commission of International Cunning Planning.”

The Unicorn Scene

Okay, that's my Blade Runner reference for the day.  The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) new combined validator - called Unicorn - is a great way of seeing a combined view of all your site-tuning and standards compliance issues in one place.

How to meet deadlines

An interesting article in setting deadlines that can be realistically achieved and tips on how and when to review deadlines

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/28/passing-the-holy-milestone-how-to-meet-deadlines/

PDF Cracker

I came across this great tool recently which allows you to upload PDFs. It then emails you them in any editable version you like, for example, as a word doc.

Wireframes

Might be quite useful for sketching out ideas or brainstorming:

• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/29/free-printable-sketching-wireframing-and-note-taking-pdf-templates/

Ushahidi

Here’s what I was talking about. Go into ‘What it does’ and you’ll see some great uses.