Communications

Minimal Biz Card

After taking some inspiration from Boris Simus and his Minimal Contact/Biz Card design, I went ahead and tried one on for size myself. My online “brand” situation is very similar to Boris’s in that my “sgclark” id represents this domain, my @sgclark Twitter handle, and my Facebook and Google+ id’s. I may even get it processed as my personal card at someplace like Moo. TBD.

Also, I’m on a bit of a minimalist kick right now as I’m really studying and paying more attention to clean, clear user interactions both online and offline. I’ve even taken to cleaning up my own site a bit with this new U/X. I’m not fully done with this as I’m tweaking it here and there.

Update: sgclark is also my handle on Instagram, Snapchat, and several other sites and social networks of choice.

GMail

I have been using the new GMail product from Google recently. I was able to get a test account from our fine friends at Blogger. I have to say that it is quite an interesting concept in that they give you oodles of disc space to store all your email so you never have to delete any of it. I think it will serve me well as a place to keep and archive interesting newsletters that I may want to refer to in the future. And maybe I will begin to use it as my back up email account at some point. It has some really neat features including a good deal of shortcuts which make using the application very easy. Check it out if can get your hands on a Beta account.