Struggling to find inspiration after for you latest project? Well maybe I can help! The following links are a small collection of blog posts, freebees, tutorials, comical tales and more that have helped me make through my latest project with my sanity intact. So fingers crossed you will find something to help get your new masterpiece of the ground.

Here are 2 quick and easy tests ‘ideal for designers’ to employ on the fly for some rough and ready usability testing.

Test 1 – 5 Pixel Blur Screenshot

As the name suggests add a 5 pixel gaussian blur to your layup/ screenshot. The most important elements of the site (Call-To-Action buttons, header and sub-header text, company (logo)) should still be clearly visbile.

Struggling to find inspiration after for you latest project? Well maybe I can help! The following links are a small collection of blog posts, freebees, tutorials, comical tales and more that have helped me make through my latest project with my sanity intact. So fingers crossed you will find something to help get your new masterpiece of the ground.
“Not another round up of the best the web has ever had to offer until next week post”
With hundreds of “best of” lists floating around on every other web design blog, what makes this one different from the rest?

Well instead of just re-posting everything and anything I can find, I will only add the posts, freebees & tutorials that I have honestly read, enjoyed and used. So there will be no needless filler just links to various sites which have genuinely helped and inspired me and hopefully will do the same for you.

Well according to the experts at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute the answer is yes, albeit just a little bit.

According to Associate Professor Fredrik Ullen the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are strikingly similar.

It would seem that both groups exhibit vastly lower numbers of receptors. It is these all important receptors that help the brain filter the constant stream of stimuli it receives, enabling direct thought.

In some people this can lead to mental illness, but in others, this uninhibited processing can lead to creative thought.

“Fewer D2 receptors in the thalamus probably means a lower degree of signal filtering, and thus a higher flow of information from the thalamus,” said Professor Ullen.

It is this unhindered flow of information that Professor Ullen believes ignites the creative spark.