Is Moore’s Party Over? | November 2011 | Communications of the ACM.

Jedi Mind Tricks: 17 Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People – ConversionXL.

If youre like most people, you feel like a baby when it comes to visual design. You sometimes have a vague sense of what you want, but cant articulate it or make it come about. All you can do is point and cry. This guide will help you communicate with conscious skill. It will show you how to create designs that are easy to understand and attractive.

via Clean Up Your Mess – A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone.

Nintendo President Takes Pay Cut In Wake Of 3DS Troubles – News – www.GameInformer.com.

In our crusade for the grail of design innovation, nature’s 4.6 billion years of (re) evolutionary design supplies us with the perfect template.

Design innovation isn’t just about having the “big idea” (more about that and the role of research in my next post) – it’s a process, a funnel that produces success equal only to the cumulative failure required to achieve it. Not clear on that? Let mother earth and arguably the most successful innovation of all time, you and me, bring it into focus. You’ll notice there seem to be rules, patterns actually, to producing innovation, and massively successful designs (like homo sapiens and the ubiquitous iPod) have harnessed that power.

via Deciphering the Patterns: Learning From Over a Billion Years of Innovation | Roundarch Blog.