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Inside Your Users’ Minds: The Cultural Probe

Filed under Internet, UI / Usability on March 28th, 2007 | Comments Off

Article by Ruth Stalker-Firth, The Cultural Probe on the List, who has been designing and implementing software for over 12 years.

Form field hints with CSS and JavaScript

Filed under Markup, UI / Usability on March 28th, 2007 | Comments Off

Nice Form field hints courtesy of “Ask the CSS guy”.

Rules and Context

Filed under Design, UI / Usability on March 24th, 2007 | Comments Off

A compelling article from Andy Rutlidge.

Among the more counterintuitive characteristics of art and design is the fact that these endeavors are governed by rules. The rules of artistry (and therefore design) are inviolate and unchanging. If you don’t obey the rules, your results will be boring, uninspiring, uncommunicative, and less than compelling. In short: poor art or poor design.

Please read.

Five simple steps to better typography

Filed under Typography on March 15th, 2007 | Comments Off

Fascinating articles from Mark Boulton.

  1. Measure the measure
  2. Hanging punctuation
  3. Ligatures
  4. Typographic Hierarchy - size
  5. Typographic Hierarchy - weight

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