“Gedeon Maheux of Iconfactory and Rick Roe of The Omni Group have differing opinions about the merits of Apple’s new photorealistic icons, so it shouldn’t be surprising that they are using different tools to create the clickable images.” Also, read former XPLANEr John Marstall’s take on the new OS X (see the 9/22/00 entry).
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“‘Design addresses itself to the need.’ If there is a single verbal phrase from one of their films that encapsulates Charles and Ray’s specific feeling about design it is that one. Though straightforward, that approach does not make life easy: because you must next identify the need and then, of course, address that — the true need of the situation: the problems that need to be solved within the constraints that need to be considered.” Eames Office is streaming the film “Powers of Ten” online on October 10, 2000, International Powers of Ten day.
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“CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH — The aesthetic judgment of Paul Gaskill, a graphic designer working on a brochure for Valley View Apartments, was ’severely clouded’ by a desire to use a new Adobe Photoshop plug-in, coworkers at Blue Moon Design said Monday.”
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“Fluff continues to be a overly common problem in Web content, especially on corporate Web sites. Fluff is content that’s intended primarily to impress or persuade, rather than inform. It includes unsupported claims, hype and statements of blatantly obvious and generic goals.”
“‘Design addresses itself to the need.’ If there is a single verbal phrase from one of their films that encapsulates Charles and Ray’s specific feeling about design it is that one. Though straightforward, that approach does not make life easy: because you must next identify the need and then, of course, address that — the true need of the situation: the problems that need to be solved within the constraints that need to be considered.” Eames Office is streaming the film “Powers of Ten” online on October 10, 2000, International Powers of Ten day.
“Presenting information on a Web interface can pose a number of challenges. With all the aspects to consider-gathering the info, formatting it, structuring it across levels and hierarchies, and worrying about how it looks — it’s easy to understand how certain elements can be overlooked or neglected. To make your lives easier, and to showoff our extensive expertise in this area, we have compiled some quick answers and explanations to a few of the most common interface info planning dilemmas.”
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