Here’s my favorite passage from Kristina Halvorson’s Content Strategy for the Web, a book that has changed the way I think about web design. Emphasis mine; it took real restraint not to emphasize the whole passage. For years, we’ve been spending millions of dollars on strategy and research, user experience design, visual design, and technical [...]
Via bkerr, two links about the plight of Shaman Drum, a small but long-lived bookstore in Ann Arbor: Open letter from a Distressed Bookseller Jim Carty, Destroyer of Local Businesses? I find the debate fascinating. I only have two things to add to the discussion: 1) my textbook buying experience at Shaman Drum was miserable, [...]
McCloud’s Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art is one of the most influential books I’ve read—it’s a must-read for any designer.
May your holidays be optimized for conversions!
I’ve been reading A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction on the subway which, despite its volume, is a perfect book to digest in five to ten minute chunks. It’s a collection of 253 patterns which, in two to three pages per pattern, guide builders toward humane ways of designing buildings, organizing public spaces, and facilitating [...]
What a great slogan for user research! Rather, her process was simple enough to resonate with anyone on a Web team. And perhaps more importantly, it would help connect Web teams to other core parts of their organizations who were skeptical of spending even another cent on their web sites. In the end, using Indi’s [...]
Sans Comic Sans is written by Matt Raw in Brooklyn, NY.