December 2010
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Las Vegas Sun among recipients of duPont broadcast... →
The Associated Press:
NEW YORK — A newspaper that put together a multimedia project on gambling addiction is among the winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for broadcast journalism, the first time a multimedia project from a print-based organization has won one of the prestigious awards.
“Bottoming Out: Gambling Addiction in Las Vegas” from the Las Vegas...
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Comic Sans Criminal →
The Comic Sans Pledge:
I, (state your name), understand that my choice of font has the power to subconsciously incorrectly set the tone for a piece of printed material, and as a result promise to seriously consider whether Comic Sans is an appropriate font choice before using it in any printed work in the future.
Comic Sans Criminal is a beautiful tutorial for the non-designer on the...
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Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free →
Woz:
The early Internet was so accidental, it also was free and open in this sense. The Internet has become as important as anything man has ever created. But those freedoms are being chipped away. Please, I beg you, open your senses to the will of the people to keep the Internet as free as possible. Local ISP’s should provide connection to the Internet but then it should be treated as...
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Giving Better Design Feedback →
This post from Mike Monteiro should be required reading for designers and supervisors of designers alike.
First rule of design feedback: what you’re looking at is not art. It’s not even close. It’s a business tool in the making and should be looked at objectively like any other business tool you work with. The right question is not, “Do I like it?” but “Does this meet our goals?” If it’s blue,...
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Google's Algorithm Guru: Design's Fine, but... →
Google Fellow Amit Singhal, head of the search ranking and algorithm team, spoke with Fast Company about how his team worked through the user experience challenges of the search product’s auto-complete feature:
“One of the problems we faced early on in this design process was whether to have the entire query be one color or give a grayish version of the completion,” he...
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“There are still plenty of use cases for ‘documents’ of XML, but APIs on the web...”
– Joe Gregorio (via deerk)
“Designers must be dogmatic, because they are responsible for just the part of...”
– The Ruricolist: Designism
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Designing Election Results on the iPad →
The Times posted a great write-up of their election-night iPad optimizations:
The most exciting aspect of the iPad-optimized site is the interactive map. In the past, our election maps were delivered with Flash. Trying to recreate the finesse of the desktop Flash versions was quite a challenge on a resource-constrained computing device. Months ahead of Election Day, Times cartographer Matt...
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“In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on...”
– Donald Miller
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The inevitable decline due to clutter →
This gem from Seth Godin hits so close to home for me as a digital news designer that my jaw feels a little sore now:
Once you overload the user, you train them not to pay attention. More clutter isn’t free. In fact, more clutter is a permanent shift, a desensitization to all the information, not just the last bit.
And it’s hard to go backward.
More is not always better....
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