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RyanWKimball

Half of a designer's job is persuasion, selling ideas. Know your audience and speak their language. How does your idea satisfy their needs? 6:19 AM Jun 1st via web
As a designer you may think visually, but learn to be good with words; they are necessary to successfully communicate your thought processes 6:08 AM Jun 1st via web
@davidfrum I agree, but only if we regularly retest people over 70 -- the elderly can be just as dangerous as our youth behind the wheel. 7:10 AM May 29th via web in reply to davidfrum
In a good drama, the most interesting characters are bold yet nuanced. Design tells a story. It's components are its cast. 7:05 AM May 29th via web
@KyleEllis I have two guesses on who that could be... 8:55 AM May 21st via web in reply to KyleEllis
Personalization is one way to move people down the long tail and that's its value: helping users find their niche techcrunch.com/2012/05/18/per… 8:53 AM May 21st via web
The CNN iReport Awards are up! cnn.com/ireport-awards 12:53 PM May 15th via web
@scotttheisen Without keen observation, one can might something beautiful, but it will not necessarily be useful. 12:36 PM May 15th via web in reply to scotttheisen
Using teleportation to send communications with unbreakable encryption might not be so far off... newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/15/bea… 12:31 PM May 15th via web
Patheticist Technology nerds, please make things work better instead of do more unnecessary things badly. 3:00 PM May 14th via web Retweeted by RyanWKimball
@amyzerba A colleague just sent me this article and I noticed you were mentioned. Great to see you getting recognition! stdout.be/2012/05/04/fun… 10:53 AM May 8th via Twitter for iPhone
What The Red Baron Can Teach You About Hiring Creative Talent zite.to/JtBDRl via @zite 8:36 AM May 8th via Zite Personalized Magazine
Every time we do all-day usability studies, my hand ends up hurting from the 300+ pages of frantic, illegible notes full of non-sequiturs 7:13 AM May 8th via Twitter for iPad
GOV.UK opens up on their principles of design gov.uk/designprincipl… 6:20 AM Apr 9th via web
The laws that govern the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote: bit.ly/GY9B17 5:03 AM Mar 29th via TweetDeck
A landing page is a lobby. Show me how to get where I want to go. Don't make me enter through the gift shop. 7:46 AM Mar 15th via Twitter for iPad
Online advertising is a necessary evil -- very necessary, very evil. 7:28 AM Mar 15th via Twitter for iPhone
@DanielBKimball Valid. I liked the sentiment that the point of a book isn't always the resolution, it's to understand the weave of the story 1:56 PM Mar 14th via web in reply to DanielBKimball
It's the weave of the story that matters. The goal of the conclusion is simply to not screw it up. zite.to/zLkDrR 8:35 AM Mar 14th via Zite Personalized Magazine
@janetvarney Could be worse. Could be Ghost Rider and 3D. Oh, wait... 12:36 PM Feb 28th via web in reply to janetvarney

Name Ryan W. Kimball
Location ATL | CHI | GR
Web http://www.ryanwk...
Bio Creative problem solver // Cartoonist // Superman enthusiast // Senior Designer at CNN Digital