Link Love is back again for 2011. It’s all about exploring, sharing and enjoying – spread the Link Love.

The Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect
A very interesting video on the power of Placebos. How could you use Placebos in your design? Or have you seen them effectively utilised in a design? Share your thoughts in the comment section.

10 Attributes of Successful Freelance Designers
Have you got what it takes to be a successful freelancer? Maybe these 10 attributes will help you determine whether you have or not.

Why Bad Ideas are Good Ideas
Ideas are a journey. They start at one point, travel this way and that and usually arrive at a destination that looks nothing like where they began…

6 Simple Yoga Stretches for Daily De-Stressing
If you are like me and spend more time than is good for you working. Then here are some great yoga stretches you can do to relax a bit during the work day or after it.

Frog Design Timeline
An interesting and interactive timeline on the history of Frog Design.

Link Love is back again, bask in it’s warm glow and linky goodness. Enjoy.

A Beer Brewed For Zero Gravity
Accessible space tourism might be a while away, however people are already starting to dream and design for the day the space resort and associated activities. Could your next design be a product for those venturing into space?

Write or Die
We designers always have a bit of a hard time getting writing done. Here’s a handy tool that just might help. Write or Die lets you put in your aim for word limit and the time you need to get it done in. You start typing and if you stop typing for too long it starts flashing red until you start again.

From Ideation To Creation: Ponoko’s Sci-Fi “Making System”
An interview with co-founder of Ponoko Dave ten Have.

Good Fucking Design Advice
Because sometimes, being your own worst critic is not enough.

Procrastination: 5 Perspectives
Exploring procrastination over at Brain Pickings.

This weeks Link Love is dedicated to data visualisation. Enjoy and remember to share the Link Love.

The World of Data
A data visualisation by GOOD on the world of data we’re creating on the internet.

The Investling Theory Of Everything
An excellent info graphic by the team at Investling.

Visualizing
Making sense of complex issues through data and design

Information Aesthetics
Where form follows data.

16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools
A list of tools for creating data visualisations from Mashable.

Another carefully curated selection of links for your perusal  - from design education to influencing people. Enjoy.

Design Education Must Redefine and Specialize
An excellent article from frog’s design mind on the design education.

How Do You Reinvent Something as Common as the Padlock?
A chat with Master Lock’s Lea Plato, lead designer of the Speed Dial combination lock.

Design for Resuse Primer
A free primer released by Public Architecture featuring 15 architectural projects with inspiring ways to reuse and repurpose materials.

3 Universal Goals to Influence People
Interesting article on effective influence and persuasion.

Influencing Strategy by Design: Design Skills
Article from Luke W on four attributes central to design that provide unique value to strategic decision-making

Videos on Industrial Design are the focus of this weeks Link Love. Although there is one little article hidden in there. Enjoy & share the Link Love.

Prototyping Processes for Industrial Designers
You Might have seen this video on prototyping processes by industrial design consultancy worrell, it’s been around a while. Worth a watch if you haven’t.

5 Secrets of Apple’s UX Design
An short sharp article on the secrets behind Apple’s ultra successful interfaces.

Design Icons – Ross Lovegrove
Ross Lovegrove talks about his work and career in this rather lengthy video (1hr).

Industrial Designer Interview: iPhone Credit Card Case
A video interview with the Industrial Designers of the iPhone Credit Card Case (3 mins). A bit a of a promo of the case, but a good one to check out if you are new to Industrial Design and want to see some of the processes behind designing porducts.

Sinual shapes: TOM DIXON
A video interview with Tom Dixon (2mins).

This week’s Link Love has an Experience Design focus. Enjoy (and don’t forget to share) the Link Love.

The opposite of user experience design
An article on user experience design

Nine Out of Ten
A blog about user experience

SpeedBird
Design, technology and culture, interaction and experience in cities, and much more.

Ubiquitous Service Design
An interesting and insightful article on Service Design.

Free tool: Symbol Signs collection
A collection of 50 common used signage symbols, professional designed. For those of you doing any Wayfinding projects.

Welcome to the latest Link Love. As you may have noticed while there is still have the great selection of design links to explore below, the Link Love banner has a new look. The banner has our new Link Love Logo and will now feature a selection of imagery from the links posted each week. As always, Enjoy and Spread the Link Love.

Uselog
The product usability weblog.

Managing a portfolio & online presence for design students
From Designswarm thoughts blog.

Take the Money and Stand Still
An interesting post on form and function of ATMs.

Who’s Suing Whom In The Telecoms Trade?
Visualization from Information is beautiful.

C is for Candy
The blog of Candy Chang (artist, designer, and urban planner). Full of interesting photographic observations.

Hi there. Here’s another round up of  interesting links to get you thinking outside your traditional design box.

Some links are newsworthy, some are from the Twitterverse, other were found while roaming the vastness of the interwebs, but most just meet our “awesomeness” requirement. Anyway we hope you’ll enjoy them, so without further ado:

Metrics Driven Design – Josh Porters slides from UX London. Although this is not specific to Industrial Design I felt that it was quite interesting and some of the main points are applicable across any design discipline.

Apartment Therapy: Calm Homes Breed Happy People – Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan of Apartment Therapy talks to 99% about the characteristic traits of a happy household and a productive workspace. Great if you are thinking about or do design from home.

John Underkoffler points to the future of UI (TED Video)- Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak.

Enough Overtheorizing Of Design Thinking. How About Let’s Start With Design Thinking 101? – More great stuff from Design Droplets favourite Idris Mootee.

Michael Bierut from Pentagram talking about clients… – A video from Creative Mornings.

Please shoot us any interesting links you’ve found, links to projects your working/have worked on or any generally awesome things! gather@designdroplets.com

Cheers,

Droplets Jr.

Hi there. Here’s another round up of  tasty links to feed your inner design geek.

Some links are newsworthy, some are from the Twitterverse, other were found while roaming the vastness of the interwebs, but most just meet our “awesomeness” requirement. Anyway we hope you’ll enjoy them, so without further ado:

• Go It Alone: How to Make Your Stuff In China – A fantastic birds eye view article series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)on producing consumer electronics in China.
• So you have a “Million dollar idea”. Now what? – Some advice from a professional inventor.
• New York Design Week 2010: Digital Fabrication Trends at ICFF – Ponoko Blog Roundup of ICFF
• Jodie Fried of Bholu – Great interview over at Melbourne based Design Files.
• Oshibe by Tomomi Sayuda – Really quirky and fascinating design by designer Tomomi Sayuda over at Design Milk.

Please shoot us any interesting links you’ve found, links to projects your working/have worked on or any generally awesome things! gather@designdroplets.com

Cheers,

Droplets Jr.

Its link love time once more…enjoy!

Objet 3d Printing: Behind The Scenes for Iron Man 2 – The Iron Man 2 suit printed to fit using Objet 3d PolyJet™ technology. Via Ponoko & Engadget

Deconstruction: Phase Design’s Duetto Espresso Cup – Some nice shots of the development of the Duetto over at Design Milk.

The Dieline’s Latest Top 10 Package Designs – Some excellent packaging inspiration from The Dieline.

Adam Wells Video from PSFK NY 2010 Conference – Adam Wells, Design Director for Virgin Group USA, shared his insights on the future of industrial design.

Top NASA News – Follow all the interesting stuff coming out of NASA, cool photos, new missions, technology etc… in one convenient place