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Title: Interesting Article for Designers
Post by: Stefek on June 28, 2009, 12:30:00 PM

Hello Bakers, found this at "a List Apart".

Here an excerpt:

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"Smart graphic design is always some balance of current expressive trends, information architecture, classical layout aesthetics, and detailed research on user preferences and motivations. You should never ignore solid user experience data, but mountains of data won’t auto-magically build you a successful site. Design is a synthetic activity. It can be informed by the results of analysis, but the tools of analysis don’t create beautiful designs. Douglas Bowman’s recent experience as a graphic designer among Google’s engineers who want “data” behind every aesthetic decision is instructive: data and user feedback are always important components of good design, but they are never its sole ingredients."

You find the whole article here:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/visual-decision-making/

Enjoy.

Regards,
Stefek

Title: Re: Interesting Article for Designers
Post by: Argos on August 14, 2009, 11:34:16 AM

Thanks for the interesting article! Well, for the link to it  :-D

Title: Re: Interesting Article for Designers
Post by: Stefek on August 22, 2009, 08:17:33 PM

Yes, visit my favorite HP at http://webdesignfromscratch.com/

They also have a book as PDF.

Maybe Jurgen (Argos) has a direct link.
He introduced me to this Book once.
It's life changing.

Enjoy!
Stefek

Title: Re: Interesting Article for Designers
Post by: Argos on August 22, 2009, 08:28:54 PM

Stefek, this is a spammer (newbie with spam link in footer). I cannot remove hist post as I'm not an admin here. I have reported it though.

Title: Re: Interesting Article for Designers
Post by: Stefek on August 22, 2009, 08:40:51 PM

Yes, you're maybe right, Sherlock  :-D

Anyway, I leve the Link to Scratchmedia here.
A must-have for web designers  :wink:


They did a relaunch of their website shortly.
Looks fantastic:
http://webdesignfromscratch.com/articles-and-tutorials.php

Kind regards,
Stefek

Title: Re: Interesting Article for Designers
Post by: Argos on August 23, 2009, 01:02:32 AM

Yeah, looks good, I'll check it out again. Has been a while ago I was there....
Cheers Stefek.