Don Norman is asking for help redesigning his website. Considering he’s pro-design, and the senior partner of the infamously anti-design Jakob Neilsen, this has to be tempting for the Neilsen wolves huh ;-)
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In design school a critique is a valuable (although potentially scary) way of improving your design ability through peer review. In the real world criticism is a dirty word from which nothing good can come. Paul Scrivens does a design critique, and the real world leaves comments.
Here’s more than you ever wanted to know about critiquing, and the associated benefits and pitfalls. I hope Paul’s next critique attracts more considered feedback ;-)
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Recently Visibone.com has started an ‘installed font’ survey. While there is a desperate need for this, I think the results are a little deceptive. Also I think they’ve focussed on the wrong aspect, that of installed fonts by platform, rather than looking at installed fonts by browser/OS. I’ve listed some semi-useful resources for using fonts on the web, but I’ve yet to come across the resource I’m looking for. Maybe I’ll have to make it myself :/
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I’ve been having some a rather lack-luster time on the web design front too. Despite learning quite a bit I don’t feel like I’m making much progress. However the new year is shaping up to be much better. I just hope that it will have some time for design!
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In developing a color scheme for this weblog, I decided to learn a little more about color theory. I’ve compiled a short list of web resources and books about it. I’ll follow this up with another article on color tools for web designers.
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