I give up. In any design, once you learn how to do something once, you should be able to do it again. This is really horrible.
That is design guru Don Norman talking in a New York Times article about a poorly designed Kodak digital picture frame he was trying out at a Best Buy store. […]
One of my design heroes is Edward Tufte. He’s the master of telling compelling stories with information, and has some of the best books on the subject ever made.
Stanford Magazine has a great article on Tufte in its latest issue, which you can read online. It tells of Tufte’s love for Galileo and many other, […]
I recently began reading Robert Hoekman Jr.‘s Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design, and can’t recommend it enough. As the title suggests, it’s all about creating web apps that are so easy to use that it seems like second nature.
Reading about the concept of “obvious” design reminded me of watching […]