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Apple is now the number one in the PC market. This title is only valid if we consider tablets (in this case the iPad) as PC’s!

Since I bought my first ipad I reduced the laptop usage (MacBook) to less than half replacing it by the pad. I use it for all the news, personal emails, books, youtube subscriptions, weather reports etc… So, if the ipad became my preferred utensil to consume these kind of content that previously was consumed through my PC, I must consider it as another personal computer (PC).

It is true that you can’t use it to run “heavy software” like autocad, photoshop etc, but for the reason some people are considering that the ipad is not a PC: “because it doesn’t has a keyboard!” I think it is ridiculous!

When mobile phone Nokia 8810 was launched without an external antenna it was not a phone?

For the past two years I have been reading a lot of business blogs, mags and books about social media, webdesign, the future of mobile and all the other tech trends. I believe that I have understood the basics, and must reduce the time I spend reading in order to get more free time to create “things” around these subjects!

I’m a strong believer that we “learn by doing it” and we will never really be able to create something if we just “study how to do it”. So my plan for this year is to create a website, that fits mobile use and have a great custom facebook page tab integrated into it.

Is anybody at the same situation?

As I’m beginning with my webdesign hobby, that may become a “hobbisiness” and later my own business, I have been “traveling” around to find inspiration on great designs that I pursue to accomplish one day.

One of my favorite findings is The Best Designs website because it has a selection of thousands of great page designs posted on web. You should not be scared about the amount of pages they have as they are well organized in categories. So if you need inspiration to create one design with an “aged look” you may browse around the “good looking” 113 webpages posted there.

Even if I’m not designing my first website yet, I just love to “browse around” to get me extremely motivated with my webdesign course and my goal of publishing my first self designed site this year. Do you know any other valuable webdesign inspiration sources that I should have a look?

Many of us think that simple things and interfaces are easily done in a minute but the true is that it is the other way around. When you need to transform a complex (text, design, platform etc…) into an easily and short “mode” it takes long time.

I always try to reduce to a minimum the amount of info I display in anything I design, write or develop and, for that, I really need to sit and think for a while. These are the steps that I usually follow:

1st- define my final goal for the project;

2nd- analyze what content I must use in order to pass the message to the end user/reader;

4th-research and build the missing content;

5th- study the best way to display the content in order to pass the message to the end user/reader;

6th- design/write the first proposal and ask others around me to comment on it;

7th- revise according to the comments I believe relevant;

8th- send it out

This means that for a poster of 3 words I need to pass through all the above steps in order to “ship it” in the way I believe it is right!

The thing here is that the end user (client or supervisor) believes that this was done in a couple of minutes when it took me some hours to accomplish it!

Do you pass by these kind of situations?