• Content
• Design
• Etc.

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

Design

• Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design
• Learning to See
• Blogs for Readers - Hacker News discussion
• This is my favorite website
• The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard from 2006
• This is a motherf*cking website
• The Honest Web Design
• Optimal Characters Per Line
• Responsive Typography - The Basics
• Web Typography
• Fonts Have Feelings Too
• The importance of emotion in design
• Reader First Internet
• Re-thinking linking
• The Value of Content
• Readability
  • https://www.readability.com

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