“Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the ‘I’ in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net. Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was.”
“Two years ago, Calvin Trillin wrote an article for the New Yorker about Shopsin’s, an eccentric eatery in the West Village with about 9 billion menu items… Shopsin’s has moved to another Village location since the article came out, but they’ve still got that big old menu. If you dare, feast your eyes on a tour de force of outsider information design, all 11 pages of the Shopsin’s General Store menu…”
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“The most important part of your digital camera ó its brains, heart, and soul ó very well maybe its image sensor. It’s where all the magic happens and where all the mistakes are made. Ben Long explains.”
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“Over the past year, Iíve evaluated the search experiences on a number of popular content sites. With the help of author and interface designer Darcy DiNucci, I picked apart the search and result designs from sites like Apple.com, NASA.gov, SchwabFoundation.org, and a variety of others. We focused on content sites, rather than e-commerce or Web applications, and we avoided general Web search engines entirely.”
“For much of the online world, London Underground’s ‘The Tube’ holds a strange fascination. The famous look of the Tube map was invented by Harry Beck, but Transport For London has kept the enduring design quality up to date on the web… I’ve taken Simon Clarke’s geographically accurate map and overlaid it onto a NASA satellite image of London.”
“Sample data can make or break a wireframe, whose purpose is typically to illustrate architecture and interaction. Poorly selected sample data can end up clouding the wireframe or distracting stakeholders from its purpose. By codifying the types of sample content they employ in their deliverables, information architects can create a coherent narrative to illustrate a websiteís functionality.”
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