Final Project Pieces Project 1- Type Specimen for Screen Project 2- Design History Presentation Project 3- Design History Web Essay   Supporting Blogs Blog 1- Type Specimen for Screen Blog 2- Design History Presentation Blog 3- Design History Web Essay   Blogs Gutenberg and Beyond A Century of Change Revolution and the Bauhaus WWII and […]

Final Project Pieces Project 01- My Manifesto Project 02- One Hundred Iterations Project 03- Follow the Rhythm Project 04- Portfolio Website   Supporting Blogs Blog 01- My Manifesto Blog 02- One Hundred Iterations Blog 03- Follow the Rhythm Blog 04- Portfolio Website   Blogs Week 2- Point, Line, Plane Week 3- The Golden Ratio, Gestalt […]

Tables Jon Duckett in his book HTML & CSS Design and Build Webites describes tables as information in a grid format. In HTML tables are written row by row. A table can be created in HTML using the element <table> this followed by table row <tr> and then table heading <th> or table data <td> […]

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 […]