“Business people don’t sit in their offices wondering how they can make a product uglier, and designers don’t want to create products that won’t sell. Everybody (usually) wants to do the right thing for the company, the products and the customers. So why do so many good designs get trampled during the product development process?”
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“Edward Tufte’s new book, Beautiful Evidence, is now at the printer and should be available in May 2006. The book is 214 pages, full color, hard cover, and at the usual elegant standards of Graphics Press. Beautiful Evidence may be ordered now; the book will be sent immediately from the bindery when completed.”
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“Among the many things to like about Veerle’s redesign of her blog is the way she does the hover effects for lists of links, such as those in her ‘approved’ section. Rather than force others to wade through Veerle’s CSS (wow, that’s quite a style sheet!) I thought it’d be helpful to show how to create this ‘block hover’ effect.”
A list linking to things like del.icio.us, Last.fm, Flickr, Bitty Browser, etc…
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