• Content
• Design
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Design by Writing

Content

• Good Writing and Editing Is Part of Great Design
• Content is the hero
• Content as Medium
• Words
• Reminder: Design is still about words
• Good Writing and Editing Is Part of Great Design

Design

• Learning to See
• Blogs for Readers - Hacker News discussion

http://vault.simplebits.com/notebook/2013/02/16/food-for-thought/

http://ia.net/know-how/100e2r

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/the-honest-web-design-65a02a631fd6

http://mikeyanderson.com/optimal_characters_per_line

http://www.teehanlax.com/story/readability/

https://www.readability.com/

http://ia.net/know-how/responsive-typography-the-basics

https://medium.com/@ssoroldoni/web-typography-the-formula-7748b8df363d

https://medium.com/who-what-why/fonts-have-feelings-too-1523564d966c

https://medium.com/i-dont-know-a-thing/the-importance-of-emotion-in-design-ade364e62707

https://medium.com/who-what-why/fonts-have-feelings-too-1523564d966c

https://medium.com/i-dont-know-a-thing/a-reader-first-internet-9a6c9c04e2f9

Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design

Etc.

This page works because it easily provides information that is useful for interested readers. No web-abusive aesthetic cruft is used to infuriate the reader. This single page is more superior in web design than the web sites of Twitter, Pinterest, etc. because those giant properties abuse normal web behavior that has existed for more than 20 years. We don't need websites to act like native apps.

http://www.shelaghlewins.com/tablet_weaving/TW01/TW01.htm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6549018

Blogs are my newspapers, thats why. For me accessibility and downwards compatability outweigh the "product" a lot. I have a low-end smart phone for which most "products" are ununsable. Why do people throw away expensive hardware that woks perfectly fine? Because the modern software doesn't run on it.

Take for example the opposite: http://blog.fefe.de

That is a product that meets my demands: I can read on any device, using multiple clients. I could read this page with a dual-core as well as with a gameboy. Serve TTF font's, maybe I rather use bitmap fonts? Doesn't matter.

I could read that blog using Mosaic, lynx, w3m... kindle displays... It also works fine for braille terminals.

I guess I am more interested in powerful systems than the pityful products of the App-bubble. After all I am a programmer.

#design - #writing - #reading - #web