Leica was my favorite brand in camera industry. It has been widely used by world’s most famous photographers and became their extension of their eyes. I wish i have this extension one day :)

A qoute from Gero Furchheim spokesman for the firm Leica Camera:

“If someone just wants to show a young boy throwing a stone in Ramallah they will use a digital camera. If they want to shoot a whole story, explaining what is happening there and why the boy is doing it, they will use a Leica. It’s a more intimate tool. With a Leica you can develop your own style, your own handwriting. The fact that we have been linked to reportage across the world is our great strength.”

Altough Flash is the most popular interactive content authoring tool, Macromedia Director becomes the former of the basic media environment.
Very useful links about Director from Less Rain. Must see :)

DENIM is tool for web designers turns drawing input to basic interface elements and navigation.

Drawing with mouse is not as easy as drawing on a paper but, your drawing input immediately turns into reusable links, windows and checkboxes. It allows design at different refinement levels, and unifies the evels through zooming.

I won’t compare this tool with Mind Manager becouse it is very formal and can be used conjuction with DENIM.
The big defference from a web designer perspective is DENIM is very close to paper and pen, so human :)
This reminds me my sketch board