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Originally Posted by Russic
c.t. - how can you hate helvetica?  |
It's not Helvetica I hate, it's the fanatical fans.
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Could I bother you to elaborate on that? How would that work?
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Not a problem.
A lot of the web designers i know work in a bit of isolation. Either at home in their mustard stained pajamas (like myself) or as an in-house designers in the back corner of the corporate office with no like minded individuals to talk to.
So twitter with it's real time content streaming, allows many independent people to share their favorite links (stuff from new fonts, new plug-ins for developments, or new techniques) to the other ideas like their favorite song or another Twitter account they find hilarious or interesting (ex. #followfridays). And essentially have realitime conversations about like minded ideas or even the latest developments in the industry. A great example of the sorta Twitter Water color talk from this week was the redesign of
Skittles corporate web site to a full on Social Media hub. (Essentially they changes their main web site to a link to their twitter, wiki, youtube and facebook fan page) It blew up and many people were talking about the big switch.
I personnaly tend to use it for feedback on some of the projects I chur out. Get some real time critiques from the community and to also ask for help when I've run into a wall. I've used it to get alot of .php help and even help when a couple servers have gone down. It's also a great way to learn about a new app or plugin before implementing into a client site.
So essentially it becomes a sort of virtual watercolor for web designers/entrepenuers/other designers.