This is a two-for-one.
If you do any kind of design or development, you’re constantly needing to match colors (or you should be).
Nattyware’s Pixie and Apple’s Digital Color Meter (if you’re using OS X Lion, which you should be, be sure to see the new way to get Hex values) are what I rely on. Both free. Both easy to use. Launch, roll over the color you want to match, and you get your RGB, Hex and other values.
I use these almost daily for web design and elearning development.
Enjoy!
Judy and I recorded our sixth show last weekend, and I think it’s our best yet. We talk about our wish list features for the next great elearning authoring tool. We rant about the flood of PowerPoint to Flash conversion tools, and we drink blonde ales.
It’s going well, and we’re having a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy it as much as we are!
My weekend plans are to add a beer list, a beer recommendation form and a show topic request form to the Emergent Radio site. (And, yes, in that order.)
So. Go forth and be enlightened by Episode #6.
Good marketing may get people in the door the first time, but good product design gets them in the door the second (and third, and fourth, and fifth) time.
- Shawn Blanc
Apple isn’t dominating because of clever marketing. They’re dominating because they make awesome products that people can’t wait to use. And when they roll out a new version, existing customers will wait in long lines again to upgrade, without thinking about it, because they know it will be great. They can buy sight-unseen because they trust Apple to deliver what only Apple can deliver, the perfect harmony between hardware and software.
And they know they’ll be able to simply turn it on and start using it.
Been a while since I’ve posted one of these. But, some great reads out there recently.
Creating Losing Designs – great ideas on using low stakes losing to motivate learners.
“The Smart Worker Needs Job Aids Rather than Courses” – this is a great series. Read ‘em all.
Learning is Social. Training is Irrelevent? – Yes.
The Death of the Traditional Enterprise
Review: DesignJot – the first iPad app for learning development? Great review.
Spanning Sync’s 1 Year Anniversary – congratulations, guys! Great product.
Book Review: ‘Game Frame’ by Aaron Dignan
