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musings on information design and architecture
Referenced by Jared Spool in an interview, although not attributed to him:
“Good Judgment comes from Experience. Experience comes from Bad Judgment. ”
Here’s to making more bad judgements!
From Susan Dray:
“If the user can’t use it, it doesn’t work.”
From Winston Churchill:
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
From Paul Rand, the famous graphic designer:
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.”
Uncovered in a great collection of quotes at www.lukew.com.
The old adage says that a picture is worth a 1000 words. When talking about business processes and procedures you’d have to say that’s a little on the conservative time. When done correctly a flowchart is an invaluable tool for determining and communicating how a business function is conducted. However, there’s the [...]
From Leonard Bernstein:
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
This is one of my favourites, not only because it came from our namesake, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (who you should really read more about).
Isambard was commenting in reaction to a move to establish regulations for bridge design (a field in which he was the leading innovator):
“In other words embarrass and shackle the progress of improvements [...]
It is reasonably well recognised (e.g. we won’t question it here!) that each of us has a preferred or dominant sensory system. This means a person will prefer to communicate or learn in either:
a visual way (e.g. seeing)
an auditory way (e.g. hearing)
a kinesthetic way (e.g. touching)
This article provides clues to help determine your [...]
From Jeffrey Zeldman:
“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.”
The term accessibility has quite specific connotations in the internet world. It describes the capability of your site to support users with disabilities:
colour blindness
sight loss (up to and including complete blindness)
hearing loss (up to and including deafness)
reduced motor skills, etc.
Additionally the disability to be considered may not need to be one that is ‘part’ of [...]