Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee creates his proposal for Web of Information in 1989 resulting in the launch of his unpatented software that allows us to share information and data through the internet in the form of the World Wide Web. However, as seen in the news and documentaries such as The Social Dilemma several problems have arisen […]

Studio Dumbar Studio Dumbar produces brands they describe as meaningful. The studio emphasises it’s work as “Pure. Simple. Powerful.” Studio Dunbar has worked on a number of diverse projects including Cities in Motion (moving custom variable typeface), Club Brugge (One of Belgium’s top soccer clubs) and Transavia (Airline). The studio’s creative director Liza Enebeis in […]

Jakob Nielsen Jakob Nielsen is co-founders with Donald Norman of the Nielsen Norman Group. Nielsen is a user advocate and established the discount usability engineering movement. This movement advocated the improvement of user interfaces through fast and cheap methods. Further to this Nielsen holds 79 US patents primarily on ways to make using the internet easier. […]

The Origins of the Internet The origins of the internet date back to the 1950s during the Cold War. At that time there was ongoing tension around nuclear warfare and the US sought to develop a communication system that could not be affected by a nuclear attack. Computers at that time were very large and […]

A Pattern Library is a collection of user interface design elements as described by Paul Boag. In Boag’s guide to creating your first pattern library, he runs through a number of steps which I thought would be useful to look at in some detail. While I’m only starting out and won’t have loads of items […]

4 Principles of Human-Centred Design Nick Babich outlines four principles of Human-centred design based on Don Normal’s talk on HCD, see clip below. These principles are focus on the people, find the right problem, think of everything as a system and always validate your design decisions. Focusing on the people means always considering who will […]

Wireframe While we were provided with the general structure of our portfolio website I thought it would be good practice to wireframe out my website with my own assets including the manifesto I created which will sit in the hero section of the website and the rhythm and lyrics section which I now intend to […]

Where it began Postmodernism is said to have begun with the demolishing of the Pruitt-Igoe housing blocks in St Louis Missouri, see below. A building that was designed with a modernist style built to capture as much sunlight as possible and with various similar consideration to maximise the space. However, what was not considered were […]

The International Typographic Style also known as the Swiss Style emerged in Switzerland in the 1950s. Its object was to produce design that was content-focused similar to the modernist view that form follows function. Closely linked with the Swiss Style is the typeface Helvetica designed in 1957.   The Helvetica documentary film In the Helvetica […]

Modernism in the US partially began as a result of Adolf Hitler’s view on modern artist’s, designers, architects and so on as being degenerates braking from the traditional and nationalist values instilled by his right-wing political ethos and as a result, they had to flee the country many immigrating to the US in the 1930s […]