It’s a beautiful object from the outside; a glass box with a rectangular footprint held together by what seem to be impossibly thin ribbons of black metal. From the outside, you can see a brick silo and a few pieces of furniture. it’s pleasurable to look at. From a distance, I couldn’t wait to get inside, to experience what it was like to be inside.
Read MoreCarousels are one of the first things that customers ask for on a home page. I resist but often lose the battle. Maybe, just maybe, if I had this kind of cogent, data-driven rebuttal in my arsenal of professional guidance, I might be more successful in prevailing. In the end, the customer would be the winner, not me. This article, lifted from Joni Halibi’s blog, explains the issue.
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This is a lazy post, but there’s nothing wrong with capturing someone else’s Good Thoughts when you see them. Emily Smith recently posted this concise thread about why you shouldn’t use “click here” as link text. I’ve written about this before as it’s one of my favorite pet peeves, but Emily sums it up even more directly, so here we go…
I’ve started to build up a significant portfolio of published infographics and I thought this is a good point at which to document how I work. Like any finished project, each graphic looks relatively simple, but the birthing process of any work of this kind is longer than you might think.
Read MoreGraphic design has rules. And they work.
Read MoreTake a few minutes to peruse GOV.UK. Where the design consistency of most large bureaucratic websites falls apart within a couple of clicks from the homepage, GOV.UK remains remarkably consistent.
Read MoreThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.
Read MoreI completed this commission on the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission for American Scientist, May-June 2021, Volume 109 Number 3.
Read MoreThis is an illustration created for American Scientist for their March-April 2020 issue. This is the first commission I’ve completed using a completely digital workflow; no physical media used at all, just a combination of the iPad and Photoshop.
Read MoreI’ve referred back to this article often enough (and had enough difficulty finding it every time) that I’ve finally decided to post it here for easy reference. In the Age of the Internet in which there are no editors and everyone regards themselves as an uncredentialed expert, this profile of crank psychology is a good guide to keep handy.
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