here’s a fantastic article on the cognitive fluency and disfluency and its behavioral effects. fluency is just a fancy measure of how easy or hard something is. to grab your interest and fuel your design work, i’ll jot down my key takeaways. i’m saving the brilliant analysis for later. (think of compressibility as a measure …
visual thinking for design, by colin ware
richly informative. and concise to boot. interaction designers, visual designers, researchers, people working in visualization, and the curious will find value in this book. careful readers will gain a deep understanding of how, why, and what we see. this understanding will inform the use of color, edges, contours, textures, layout, text, images, order and motion. …
emotional design is, eh, ok
i’m a fan of don norman’s design of everyday things, so i picked up emotional design with great expectations. i was disappointed. i expected a richer, tighter explanation of the interplay between emotion and design, a book full of models, insights, and design directives. norman doesn’t completely fail in these regards, but neither does emotional …
Comments