The 5 whys.
The 5 Whys is a question-asking technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. The primary goal of the technique is to determine the root cause of a defect or problem.
The key is to encourage the trouble-shooter to avoid assumptions and logic traps and instead trace the chain of causality in direct increments from the effect through any layers of abstraction to a root cause that still has some connection to the original problem.
from Wikipedia
R.I.P.
FF Chartwell
Lets you make nice graphs by clever use of OpenType features. Just by typing simple equations you can make neat bar, line, radar, pie, rose, and ring charts.
And in especially good news it’s also possible to embed it (Though not allowed by the EULA. Yet.).
Available here as individual “weights” (in this case graph types) or a whole family.
/via Cameron Moll
A pretty neat UI concept by Toki-Woki. I personally like the “elastic toolbar” name given by Dmitry Fadeyev of usabilitypost.com better than the original “fluid corners”. Whatever the name, with a bit of behaviour polishing this could be a small but welcome usability tweak in a future os release.
R.I.P MCA
Impostor Syndrome
Have you ever had the feeling that you didn’t really know what you were doing, and it was just a matter of time before someone realized it and exposed you as a fraud?
Turns out it’s not just psychological, there’s also biology behind this nasty feeling that you’re a fraud about to be exposed, explains Olivia Fox Cabane.
/ via Last Great Thing
Typeconnection by Aura Seltzer is a nifty little web game that let’s you play matchmaker with typefaces and send them on a date.
/ via idsgn
Part of John Peels massive (26,000+ LPs alone) record collection is to be digitized and published online by his family and The John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts.
The project will release the names and song titles of 100 records a week from the collection, for 26 weeks between May- Oct, featuring the first records from one letter of the alphabet each week. People will be able to listen online to many of these records via links compiled by the project.
You can read a bit more about the project here.
Somewhat puzzlingly either Spotify or iTunes is required to listen to the albums though, but I guess pretty much everyone except me has at least one of those.
/via Khoi Vinh
Tere Flint.
