What is this place?
Polytechnic is the online home of Garrett Coakley.
It tends to focus on such geekery as web development, technology, music, film, and photography.
A proud member of Oxfordbloggers.com.
Elsewhere
Other places I can be found on the web.
- Follow me on twitter
- See my photography on flickr
- Current listening on last.fm
- What I’m linking to on del.icio.us
- My tumblr powered scrapbook of miscellanea
Tag Archives: design
Where to begin?
Incomprehensible industry jargon? Check. (What is a “TOD”, why would I care?) Apostrophe abuse? Check. Weirdly formatted unreadable text? Check. Poorly designed machine with usability failures leading to poorly designed poster to cover same? Check. I don’t know what pisses me off more; that the process of collecting tickets is so badly designed it requires a sign like this [...]
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Design
Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.- Shaker design philosophy (via Joshua Porter)
Future of Web Design
Unfortunately I couldn't make it to the Future of Web Design conference this year, partly because of the ongoing integration work (if you're following me on Twitter you know what that's been like) and partly because I wanted to save some cash for dConstruct 2008.
Luckily Jeremy Keith has done a fantastic job of liveblogging the presentations, so between his sterling effort and the torrent of photos on Flickr I can almost kid myself that I was there.
Roll on 3rd September.
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Testify
Information architecture. Usability. Accessibility. Web standards. If you don’t know about these things, stop designing websites until you have learned. Competence in graphic design is merely a baseline; it does not qualify you to create user experiences for the web.
Tags: accessibility, design, development, information architecture, quote, standards, usability, world wide web
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Edward Tufte at The Royal Geographic Society