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“The fact that graphic designers and other people who do expert problem solving in visual domains have difficulty verbally articulating the basis of their expertise leaves us with a paradox: How do designers communicate expertise to each other? How then, is it possible for anyone to learn to become a designer?”

“We invite you to enter a visual landscape that reveals much of the rich achievement of five centuries of scientific and artistic pursuit. Travel through time; it is a voyage of eye and mind, a potent mixture of art, imagination, mythology and real science… This is the place where designers, artists, publishers and communications professionals can easily access many of the choicest visual communications from history to convey a message today. From the first printed atlas of the world, to pioneering studies of human anatomy, lavishly illustrated constellation charts, to early botanical classics, Visual Language offers the finest selection of royalty-free historical illustration on CD-ROM.”

“Because interaction design has strong roots in the social sciences with their positivist approaches to studying and analyzing behavior, little has been written about non-formal methods, approaches which might serve as an analog to the architect’s playful, exploratory sketching described above. In this article, I want to discuss one of the non-formal methods I use: storytelling. Storytelling is an integral part of my approach to design, both at the earliest stages, as well as later on in the process.”

“A WikiWikiWeb is a web site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. Linking is done automatically on the server side; all pages are stored in a database. This may sound rather simplistic, but a Wiki is a very unique way to collaborate on the Web… The addictive quality of a Wiki is that making pages is as simple as making a link to them. If they don’t yet exist, the page link will be followed by a hyperlinked question mark; follow that link and you can define the new page. With this setup, you can update and create pages from anywhere there is a web browser handy.”

“Magazine typography is all about communicating, but magazines communicate in many different ways. One of those ways is through the text, the traditional meat of any publication. Other ways include photography, artwork, suggestive and allusive headlines, cartoons, and even the advertising. All of these require integrating words and images in imaginative ways.”