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One Piece at a Time: A Web Design Pedagogy of the Gradual Growth
Lars Soderlund, Purdue University
Lively and engaging presentation.
Guns Ruin Picnics (guides, regularity, and product)

Made a compromises between code and WYSIWYG: gave them templates, have some stability while allowing code learning. Often end up going into deep code
Wanted an emergent system: […]

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Now that my document design class is over, I’ll probably post fewer typography based posts and more on social media and the web. But for now, here is one more.
This flow chart provides fun, clever, and a bit snarky at times advice on selecting a typeface for many different reasons. I quite enjoy choosing […]

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One of my students sent me a link to this quiz on “which type are you.” Not only did I enjoy it from a type geek perspective, but also from a design perspective. The video quiz flows nicely, uses visual verbal rhetoric well, and has a clear personality. It is cleverly designed. I quite enjoyed […]

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Ever wonder how many people around the world or in particular countries use the Internet? This handy resource by Google provides a graph over time (1990-2007), allowing you to see and compare Internet users as percentage of population for a variety of countries. You can select by check boxes from a long list of countries […]

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If you are a designer and just don’t know what to do about color, this article “Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color” provides some great information on color. It is a nice starting place with info warm, cool, and neutral colors; primary and secondary colors; the meanings of the colors; and […]

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Here is another typography joke:

If you don’t get this joke, poor Comic Sans is probably one of the most hated typefaces in the world. It was created in 1994 by Vincent Connare for Microsoft. He created it as a more appropriate typeface for Microsoft Bob to speak in in speech bubbles than Times New Roman […]

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I got quite the laugh from this. Thanks to Bill (of Talking Traffic) for sending this to me:

I viewed this on The Rejectionist, which cites Fuck Yeah, Puns!.

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Some things never change…
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I recently discovered this handy and fun color theme website: Kuler where we can “explore, create, and share color themes.” It can be used for any color design you want from blogs, websites, digital media project, even to select paint colors for your own house, as the video by Adobe states. The themes work with […]

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The Usability Professionals’ Association surveys the salaries and other career facts of usability professionalse every so often. The findings for 2009 are up and interesting. The quick summary is: most of people are making far more than us pre-tenure folks who teach usability. But then, I knew that. Here are some other interesting facts:

The […]

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