Looks like the online version of the little book by Pegie Stark Adam that Poynter put out several years ago. “…an online guide that explains color theory and how to use it in design through examples and exercises. The tour is split into eight sections…”
Looks like the online version of the little book by Pegie Stark Adam that Poynter put out several years ago. “…an online guide that explains color theory and how to use it in design through examples and exercises. The tour is split into eight sections…”
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“A survey of the epoch that began early in this century, and an analysis of its latest manifestations: an economic order in which knowledge, not labor or raw material or capital, is the key resource; a social order in which inequality based on knowledge is a major challenge; and a polity in which government cannot be looked to for solving social and economic problems.”
“In 1996, anyone who wanted to download Netscape or use its services had to persevere through 20 steps, fill out 26 fields of information, read more than 500 words of instruction, and click over to a partner site to download an authentication certificate, which he or she then ‘presented’ at the Netscape site. My task was to redesign this scandalous registration system; the goal was a short, consistent, usable interface within three weeks.”
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“Information Visualization is the use of computer-supported interactive visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition. Whereas scientific visualization usually starts with a natural physical representation, Information Visualization applies visual processing to abstract information. This area arises because of trends in technology and information scale. Technically, there has been great progress in high-performance, affordable computer graphics. At the same time, there has been af a rapid expansion in on-line information, creating a need for computer-aid in finding and understanding them. Information Visualization is a form of external cognition, using resources in the world outside the mind to amplify what the mind can do.”
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“This article tells how the GUI came about. It starts with the (possibly apocryphal) story of how Cro-Magnon Glug accidentally developed the GUI to appease his fellow cavemen’s needs for understanding through visual metaphors. It then takes us through the better-documented days of Xerox’s PARC lab, Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad, Alan Kay’s SmallTalk, and the (possibly even more apocryphal) stories of the rivalry between Steve Jobs’ Apple and Bill Gates’ Microsoft that gave us the Windows and Mac GUI-driven OS’s of today. Along the way we’ll learn about the memex, the first wooden mouse, ‘bit-blitting,’ the Xerox Star, the Apple Lisa, and what really happened that momentous day in the PARC labs when Jobs and company paid a visit, notepads in hand…”
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