Creative Perspectives

A collection of links by the team at Creative Perspectives.

A List Apart: I’ve always believed nailing down the details of a creative project should happen in the context of a collaborative relationship rather than as simply a response to a punch list of “requirements”. In “RFPs: The Least Creative Way to Hire People”, Greg Hoy talks about how “the lack of meaningful dialogue makes this [RFPs] little more than a game of roulette”. — Ellen White

Edward Tufte: Meet the “Slopegraph”. It’s pretty amazing how a few simple lines can add a tremendous amount of meaning to a table of data. Tufte’s second example is especially compelling. — Tom McCrystal

Charlie Park via Daring Fireball. And just a day after re-reading Tufte’s Slopegraph article, John Gruber points out a very nice analysis of the data visualization technique. — Tom McCrystal

Realise Digital: A discussion on why it can be a good idea, for the sake of accessibility and design, to build multiple versions of your websites. One for the latest and greatest browsers and tech and a similar, but reduced, design for those using outdated browsers. — Davis Murphy

Design Shack: An interesting article that covers the awkwardness of the CSS float property for use in website layouts, and what new methods and specifications may be used to replace them. — Davis Murphy

Fierce Healthcare. “Physician training cuts proposed to fix deficit”. Politics aside, this seems a great way to balloon the deficit in outlier years, as less training will create more medical mistakes. In general, “Training = GOOD.” — Tom McCrystal