“This is my set of shapes for making wireframes in OmniGraffle (Mac OSX). For user flows and such I recommend Jesse James Garret’s IA Stencils (Visio and EPS formats) or the default Flow Chart palette available in OmniGraffle… My stencil exists of a very basic set of shapes including: browser chrome, title blck, form elements, a greeked text block, text headings, some boxes, and label and note blocks.”

“Faced with the continuing fallout of the Dot.com collapse and recession, the advertising industry’s interactive shops stuggled mightily throughout 2001. Many tried a variety of methods in an attempt to reduce costs and survive. Advertising Age’s annual analysis found that three of the most common strategies for coping were draconian cost-cutting, widespread layoffs and office closings.”

“Before launching into an analysis of why today’s comics suck so badly, let’s be fair and get the opposite perspective. I called Lee Salem, editorial director of Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City — which handles ‘Cathy,’ ‘For Better or For Worse,’ and ‘Doonesbury,’ among others — and his rationale did have a certain conservative logic. ‘I think you are being too harsh,’ he said. ‘I’ve gotten letters from readers saying, ‘I don’t think ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ is funny.’ Humor is in the eye of the beholder.”

“The news has become a worrisome visitor in our lives over the last few months, and it arrives in an ever-increasing variety of forms. TV news, according to one recent survey, still reaches most households, but text-based news provides the supplementary information — on web sites, newspapers, email, palmtop bulletins and even zipper signs. A cursory glance at this particularly rich array of printed and transmitted words reveals a genre of media in flux — the typography of news. Typography was never more important to us, and yet never less noticed.”

“Google has become one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley by helping millions of Internet users search the Web smarter and faster. But how does this wildly popular search engine find the new ideas that will keep its business moving forward? By ‘googling’ itself.”

“The news has become a worrisome visitor in our lives over the last few months, and it arrives in an ever-increasing variety of forms. TV news, according to one recent survey, still reaches most households, but text-based news provides the supplementary information — on web sites, newspapers, email, palmtop bulletins and even zipper signs. A cursory glance at this particularly rich array of printed and transmitted words reveals a genre of media in flux — the typography of news. Typography was never more important to us, and yet never less noticed.”

“We are seeing a return to the roots of what newspapers are all about. All of us have been guilty of design excesses, including me. I think that newspaper design is now going to change for the better. I see a return to a more minimalistic approach to the way we display the news.”

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“We are seeing a return to the roots of what newspapers are all about. All of us have been guilty of design excesses, including me. I think that newspaper design is now going to change for the better. I see a return to a more minimalistic approach to the way we display the news.”

“Lack of time, resources and knowledge are often cited as reasons for not involving users in site design and development. But hour for hour, dollar for dollar, research and testing with users are the single best tools for creating successful interactive services. This article, and the accompanying resources, provide you with a starting point for including your users in all phases of site development, including strategy and design. The time to design with users is now.”

“Lack of time, resources and knowledge are often cited as reasons for not involving users in site design and development. But hour for hour, dollar for dollar, research and testing with users are the single best tools for creating successful interactive services. This article, and the accompanying resources, provide you with a starting point for including your users in all phases of site development, including strategy and design. The time to design with users is now.”

“Lack of time, resources and knowledge are often cited as reasons for not involving users in site design and development. But hour for hour, dollar for dollar, research and testing with users are the single best tools for creating successful interactive services. This article, and the accompanying resources, provide you with a starting point for including your users in all phases of site development, including strategy and design. The time to design with users is now.”

“This section displays images sorted by known dust jacket designers for titles printed in the years 1928 through 1970. It includes pictorial, design, and non-boilerplate text styles found on flexie’s and hardbacks, plus illustrated acetates and box images.”

“Walk into any K-Mart. Then walk into any Target. You’ll see similar merchandise (substitute Martha Stewart for Michael Graves), similar target audiences, even similar prices. The difference between the stores is brand. If you followed usability gurus like Jakob Nielsen blindly, brand would have little to no place in information and interaction design.”

“This section displays images sorted by known dust jacket designers for titles printed in the years 1928 through 1970. It includes pictorial, design, and non-boilerplate text styles found on flexie’s and hardbacks, plus illustrated acetates and box images.”