Plenty of juicy design links for your browsing pleasure. Enjoy.
Spezify – a cool little visual search engine.
The Best (and Easiest) Advice on Sketching – more great tips from Michael Roller.
How to Understand your users with Personas – Using personas explained in cartoon form. Awesome! (aimed at software and web dev. but still applicable for ID).
Brad Bird on Sacrificing Ideas – “quick clip of Brad Bird talking about the film creation process and giving up particular ideas for the good of the overall concept.”
The Fun Theory - “an initiative by Volkswagen that is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better.”
Raph – Thanks for the link. Carsonified’s post about the personas in comic strip form is also really good too!