28th
July
2000
“Comix might work well here as explainers of processes. If you have a complicated product you’re trying to sell — and actually, Web servers, software, and applications, just the sort of things comix geex are interested in, represent this genre well — then go ahead and write out an eXPLANATiON in words, but also give us pictures. Why? Some people learn and understand better from words, others from images. You cover all your bases. Case in point: XPLANE, best-known for their editorial illustrations in Business 2.0. Xplane’s stick figures, combined with a few choice sentences, meet any definition of comix, including McCloud’s.”
posted in Comics | Permalink |
28th
July
2000
“The use of the word ‘information’ as a descriptive adjective has exploded to the point of near absurdity: information age, information society, information economy, information superhighway, information millennium, information revolution. But what does this word ‘information’ mean in these constructions and how did it become the new keyword of our social formation’s self-definition?”
posted in Information design | Permalink |
28th
July
2000
“There is an unarticulated war currently raging among those who make web sites. Like the war between dark-skinned blacks and light-skinned blacks in Spike Lee’s School Daze, this war is one that only its participants recognize. The war is not between commercial sites and experimental sites. It’s not between ‘Bloggers’ and ‘Flashers.’ This war is between usability experts and graphic designers.”
posted in Usability | Permalink |
28th
July
2000
“Comix might work well here as explainers of processes. If you have a complicated product you’re trying to sell — and actually, Web servers, software, and applications, just the sort of things comix geex are interested in, represent this genre well — then go ahead and write out an explanation in words, but also give us pictures. Why? Some people learn and understand better from words, others from images. You cover all your bases. Case in point: XPLANE, best-known for their editorial illustrations in Business 2.0. XPLANE’s stick figures, combined with a few choice sentences, meet any definition of comix, including McCloud’s.”
posted in Comics, Visual thinking, XPLANE | Permalink |
28th
July
2000
“There is an unarticulated war currently raging among those who make web sites. Like the war between dark-skinned blacks and light-skinned blacks in Spike Lee’s School Daze, this war is one that only its participants recognize. The war is not between commercial sites and experimental sites. It’s not between ‘Bloggers’ and ‘Flashers.’ This war is between usability experts and graphic designers.”
posted in Web design | Permalink |
