The Archives
June 2008
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The New 10 Commandments
Posted in I Like, Quotes
On Mon 30 June (Permalink, No Comments)4. Thou shalt not overuse glassy reflections.
One of 10 brillant ‘commandments’ written by the guru’s over at Business Week. This is probably equally important as the BBC’s 15 Web Principles! I’m guilty of more than one, that’s for sure! Read the 10 here. -
Kwicks!
Posted in Try This!, Web Development
On Mon 30 June (Permalink, 1 Comment)Following a chat I just had, I thought I’d write a bit of a techie post about JavaScript animation. If we had to display a large body of information on a homepage a year or two ago, the design would have looked fairly messy – but since this whole JavaScript ‘movement’, we can use carousels [...]
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I Don’t Understand
Posted in Information Architecture, Quotes
On Mon 30 June (Permalink, No Comments)Sorry for all the quotes recently, I’ve been completely stacked out with an information architecture document I’m working on. Which ties me quite nicely to this quote;
If you’re interested in information architecture, or just find yourself thust into its scary world (like me), you might find Boxes and Arrows or Jesse James Garrett’s site useful.
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BBC’s 15 Web Principles
Posted in I Like, Quotes, Reference Tools
On Thu 26 June (Permalink, 3 Comments)I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while (years in fact), but never got around to it. But seeing as the BBC has recently undergone a radical new redesign (above), and was featured in this months Web Designer Magazine - I thought now was as good a time as any.
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Wednesday Quotes
Posted in Quotes
On Wed 25 June (Permalink, No Comments)Creativity is the capacity to evaluate, organize, deconstruct, interpret and synthesize chaos. The result? Assigning a systemically simple well-packaged new proposal to a problem.~ via this PDF
Print designers make the worst web designers~ Sara (cited from ’some guy’)
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