WordPress 3.0 (Thelonious) was released last week. At first pass I didn’t notice much of a difference. You might think that too if your current WordPress theme is overriding some of the new features or if you don’t know about a needed code change.
The latest version of WordPress makes it a lot easier to customize a theme with a drag and drop tool in the Appearance panel. Unfortunately, I don’t see that option available in my installation. That’s because my current theme called Thesis is overriding the standard WordPress setup. I’ll have to wait on an update from the folks that make the Thesis theme I use. Check to see if you’re having the same issue with your theme.
This awesome tutorial breaks down simple drawing techniques to facilitate visual thinking. The tutorial comes from a post on the blog of Bigger Picture, a Danish company that teaches visual language and visual thinking skills. Intro: Step 1: Drawing People Step 2: Drawing Places Step 3: Drawing Process Step 4: Drawing Speech Step 5: Using [...]
There’s a new iPad app to visually structure business models based on the Business Model Generation methodology. The methodology is outlined in the book Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers. Alex Osterwalder, one of the writers of the book, used paper prototyping to show how the new app will function. [...]
How do you build a project schedule? If you start building a fairly complex schedule on the computer, you can actually end up wasting time. It’s much easier to build a project schedule with paper (actually Post-Its) before heading to the computer. Here’s how I make my schedules with Post-Its. 1) Categories Grab a piece [...]
Here’s a great video I found showing the trade-off of value vs. complexity when deciding which features to add to a product. Often times folks building a product become fixated on building the most complex features because they’re cool, not because they can generate a lot of value. This is a product management trap to [...]
So you have an iPhone app to sell (or you’re working on one). Well, good for you creator of app 300,001. How do you plan to sell the thing? If your app is rockstar quality then simply posting it in the App Store may be enough. Unfortunately, most apps get lost in the shuffle, or [...]
Sometimes it can be hard to decide on the correct type of chart to best represent your data. Should you use a two axis column line chart or ??? Well, there’s an easy way to narrow down the options. Dr. Andrew Abela, developer of the Extreme Presentation Method, created the graphic below as a starting [...]
Widgenie offers a great way to quickly create charts that you can embed in a blog or share (iGoogle, Facebook). Click the “Grab me” link at the bottom of the graph to see the sharing options. In a previous post I showed how to create business dashboards with iGoogle. We could use Widgenie to add [...]