"There’s no competitive advantage today in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care. The world cares about what you can do with what you know – do you have the skill, do you have the will."

Harvard’s Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World, speaking at Skillshare’s Penny 2012 conference. 

Wagner’s insights echo John Seely Brown’s in the excellent A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, as well as Sir Ken Robinson’s vision for changing educational paradigms to better foster creativity.

(via explore-blog)

Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture

A useful framework and guide for how to approach the design of new interactive languages. A good read and well researched, but I felt like I was reading the same handful of ideas over and over again.

Content Strategy for the Web

It’s unfortunate that content strategy is often ignored completely or neglected until last minute. Great content is necessary for a great user experience.

“Content Strategy for the Web” is an inspiring and comprehensive handbook for how to design a successful strategy. This book covers everything, including how to kickoff a project, complete a content audit, define a core strategy, write a style guide and persuade others of the importance of having a content strategy.

“Done well, content can engage your users, answer their questions, and motivate them to take action.”

"Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature, it’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match."

Isaac Asimov (via explore-blog)

I’m in Austin! #SXSW (Taken with Instagram).

"We don’t actually finish our films, we release them."

John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer at Pixar