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Digital agency seeks good advice

What’s the best advice anyone has ever given you? Something that changed your life for the better. Maybe a lot, maybe just a little. Something that made you think, “I wish somebody had told me that before.” We’d like to know what it was! Then we’d like to pass it on to the people who read our blog. We’re all in this together, and maybe one day your advice will help someone else out.

Apps

Mindly →

Beautiful mind mapping

A new mind-mapping tool to visualise complex thoughts and associations between ideas. I can see Mindly being really useful for planning a speech or taking notes during a meeting.

Roadmap →

Team-based project planning

Roadmap is a great-looking tool “that gives you the ability to plan projects by simply dragging and dropping, providing flexibility when your plan change.” Ideal for teams with lots of simultaneous projects.

Typely→

Proofreading editor

Typely promises to find typos and common mistakes in your writing. The free tool also offers useful stats and analysis on your text, such as how difficult it is to read or how 'ordinary' your vocabulary is.

Enpose →

API-powered website screenshots

Enpose is a simple URL-based API that makes taking screenshots of websites extremely easy. You can even define the viewport dimensions through the URL.

Gear

Design Kit →

The creative exercise travel pack

A new project from non-profit design studio IDEO: “The Design Kit Travel Pack is a deck of 32 cards containing bite-sized design exercises you (or your team) can use to unleash your inner creative genius. Gathered from our years of experience designing solutions to some of the world’s toughest challenges, the exercises in the Travel Pack are divided into three sections designed to help you get inspired, take creative risks, and test your ideas in the real world, no matter what you’re working on.”

Daily Roller →

Your to-do list on a roll

Such a lovely, simple idea: “Designed in proportion with intimate spaces – your office, bedroom or kitchen – the small wall-mounted paper roller focuses on personal productivity and organisation. Constructed from powder-coated aluminium, it comes with screws and one roll of brown kraft paper.”

Perusal

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Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future

With everyone anxious about missing out on the big Bitcoin windfall, the environmental impact of cryptocurrencies is becoming more obvious by the day: mining now consumes more electricity than 159 countries including Ireland and most countries in Africa. It also follows the typical privilege patterns we know from Silicon Valley. Is that the future we imagined, fed by FOMO and greed?

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Ethics for Design

A wonderful documentary project: “12 designers and researchers from 8 European cities discuss the impact, sometimes harmful, of design on our societies and the paths to follow for designers to work for the good of all and not just a few.”

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Everything Is Broken

A programmer’s reality check: “It’s hard to explain to regular people how much technology barely works, how much the infrastructure of our lives is held together by the IT equivalent of baling wire. Computers, and computing, are broken.”

Quote

So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.

– Ryan Singer