One of the challenges we face as creative problem solvers is dropping our challenge-focused baggage and opening our minds to unique solutions. We all know the rules of a good brainstorm:
• Lots of ideas – quantity, not quality
• No judging!
• Odd, weird, unrealistic ideas welcome
• Combining ideas into new ideas also handy
Sounds easy, but often our creativity is held back by an all-too-adult awareness of the cold, hard reality our projects live in. The answer? Think like a kid.
Now you can read gripping narrative for free on Amazon.com. Not with Amazon’s annoying “Look Inside the Book” feature, but right there in the customer reviews.
Encountering ridiculous product listings, everyday Amazonians are responding in non-everyday ways, morphing their reviews into creative short fiction.
The Google Chrome Team has authored an online book addressing some common topics on the Internet. It not only offers awesome examples of what you can do with HTML5/CSS3/JS, but is also a good book about the Internet in general. As a developer, I particularly like the section on how older browsers are slowing down innovation on the Internet. Take a look and let us know what you think in the comments.
http://www.20thingsilearned.com/
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Additions to Safari now make it possible to do 3D transformations of HTML elements. To give these transformations a whirl, I made this slideshow.
Not all browsers support these features. But Webkit does, which means that all iOS devices can take advantage of them. The technical aspects of CSS 3D are more than I want to get into here. The key point is that websites on these devices can now be much more visually creative.
Somewhere along the line it became clear that not all Safaris are alike. For instance, mobile Safari on the iPad (iOS 3.2.2) does not render reflections when a 3D transformation is applied to an element. Neither does Safari for Windows 5.0.2. But mobile Safari for the iPhone 4 and the latest version of Safari for MacOS do render reflections, even if a 3D transformation is applied.
