Thoughts Blog
Killing a job application
This signals a departure from strictly design content so please bare with me for a minute. 
South Africa has abundant design talent and we are lucky to attract people that have this talent in concentrated doses. As the years pass we have found that applicants have a tough time articulating their personal value proposition. Indeed its the act of articulating ones talent without coming across as an asshole that is the single most important aspect of getting a nice job.
Form vs Function
As designers we want to create something beautiful, that will look great in our portfolios and to make our fellow designers envious. But, upon delving deeper; what is the real purpose of it all, if not to make it actually work for the client too...
Thoughts on Creative Culture
Ben Chestnut is the CEO and co-founder of MailChimp – one of the worlds most successful email marketing companies. Akin to other successful companies like Google, Facebook and Zappos, Mail Chimp fosters a non-traditional company culture – an element that has been vital to their success. With over 1.2 million users, we think it’s safe to say that MailChimp is doing something right.
A picture is worth a thousand words
We live in an age in which information is very easy to access and thus dense. On Technode it is explained that the "data being released on the daily basis, we hear 10 billion there, 800 billion there, 30 million there, after a while, these numbers start to lose meaning because they lack comparison and relativism."
Why Google is... well Google
After watching a small video on the history of Google search, all of my other ideas for a thoughts blog got bumped out of the way to write this post. I am a fan of Google. Nicework is a fan of Google. They run our mail, calendar and documents on a daily basis.
