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Category Archives: Design
AEAChicago2007 – “Interface Design Juggling” by Dan Cederholm
Back to main AEAChicago2007 post International Jugglers Association was in next room to Webvisions 2006 color, typography, iconography, microformats, flexibility start by keeping one object in the air, then two, then…. special announcement: has a new site, toupeepal.com (Wig 2.0) … Continue reading
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AEAChicago2007 – “Design Your Way Out of a Paper Bag” by Jason Santa Maria
Back to main AEAChicago2007 post start with discovery: research, interviews, what company does and message they want to convey do discovery in a place where you feel creative – colors, books, stuffed animals he keeps morgue files – printed matter … Continue reading
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AEAChicago2007 – “Writing the User Interface” by Jeffrey Zeldman
Back to main AEAChicago2007 post interfaces are mostly text try going to a website in a foreign language and see if you can tell how to interact content drives traffic – i.e. boingboing words + how big they are + … Continue reading
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An Event Apart Chicago 2007
Better late than never. Following will be my notes from An Event Apart Chicago 2007, held August 27th and 28th. It was the AEA lineup I was most interested in seeing, and conveniently they came to my city. I’ve since … Continue reading
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Quiet structure for reading online
Via Leisa Reichart’s disambiguity, Andy Rutledge has a discussion of “quiet structure” on the new CNN site design, contrasted with the busyness of the new USA Today design. He mentions simplicity (in header and structural elements) and consistency (in element … Continue reading
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Tools of the Trade
Many information architects come from a design background. Their deliverables are gorgeous, their blogs are pretty – and their presentations are Good PowerPoint (take a look at the IA Summit ones for examples). It’s a little intimidating for me, coming … Continue reading
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