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Here Comes the Heresy
I’m going to commit heresy by disagreeing with Donald Norman’s article, “Words Matter. Talk About People: Not Customers, Not Consumers, Not Users.” In it, Norman proposes that we stop dehumanizing the audience for our products by calling them ‘users’ and refer to them as ‘people’. He recognizes the potential problem of there being multiple roles [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Negative blockers and tiny gods
It seems so obvious now that it’s laughable, but until I started working in such a large company, I had never realized how key communication and collaboration were in the development process. It was a naïve notion, but I pictured designers mocking up the UI, ‘throwing it over the fence’ (or in this case, the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Function before Form
I’ve been browsing around A List Apart lately for some inspiration, and I found this article: A Dao of Web Design. Extremely well written and carefully crafted, this article gave me one of my new favorite quotes:
Firstly, think about what your pages do, not what they look like. Let your design flow from the services [...]
Uncomplicated
More and more I’ve been checking out Cooper’s blog. It’s all very brilliant, but I especially love how they break design theory down into bite size chunks. They create an ongoing dialogue about design theory for those of us who want to learn more, but don’t necessarily have the time to sit at a coffee [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Psyop
Since a friend pointed the site out to me, I’ve become really enthralled with Psyop. They have some of the most interesting ads; they’re gorgeous illustrations with some extremely inspiring ideas.
What I like best about the site is that they flesh out and illustrate concepts. Change, influence, persuasion- you can’t just draw a simple picture [...]
