“Experience Design is an emerging paradigm, a call for inclusion: it calls for an integrative practice of design that can benefit all designers, including those who work in the new, interactive media. Unfortunately, the intense time and project pressures faced by designers in all disciplines, together with a parochialism or provincialism that is disturbingly constant among designers, prevents interdisciplinary conversations. Web designers are too busy to talk to architects, who are too busy to talk to graphic designers, who are too busy to talk to automotive designers, and so on. Not only at professional association and trade events, but also on the ‘Net, we miss the opportunity to learn from and work with each other.”

“Experience Design is an emerging paradigm, a call for inclusion: it calls for an integrative practice of design that can benefit all designers, including those who work in the new, interactive media. Unfortunately, the intense time and project pressures faced by designers in all disciplines, together with a parochialism or provincialism that is disturbingly constant among designers, prevents interdisciplinary conversations. Web designers are too busy to talk to architects, who are too busy to talk to graphic designers, who are too busy to talk to automotive designers, and so on. Not only at professional association and trade events, but also on the ‘Net, we miss the opportunity to learn from and work with each other.”

“For me, illustrators are more than picture makers or stylists. In my case they come up with the ideas that bolster my art direction. My design is, therefore, a frame for their illustration. I know that this is not fashionable to say at a time when graphic designers have asserted more creative independence — often combining design and illustration into a single typographic manifestation — but the best illustrators offer more than a design framework. They are storytellers.”

“No other design discipline requires so much learning and training as fontography, and by no other aspect can amateurs be so easily distinguished from professionals. To be font literate, a designer has to study the history and the principles of font design.”

“Experience Design is an emerging paradigm, a call for inclusion: it calls for an integrative practice of design that can benefit all designers, including those who work in the new, interactive media. Unfortunately, the intense time and project pressures faced by designers in all disciplines, together with a parochialism or provincialism that is disturbingly constant among designers, prevents interdisciplinary conversations. Web designers are too busy to talk to architects, who are too busy to talk to graphic designers, who are too busy to talk to automotive designers, and so on. Not only at professional association and trade events, but also on the ‘Net, we miss the opportunity to learn from and work with each other.”

“In a previous column we described why an intranet is used by many organizations to share intelligence. This article outlines the steps necessary for building an intranet to share your marketing and strategic information. Typically, five steps are needed to structure the system…”

“This document contains the most frequently-asked questions (with answers) about XML, the Extensible Markup Language. It is intended as a first resource for users, developers, and the interested reader, and does not form part of the XML Specification.”