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Edward Tufte at The Royal Geographic Society

Yesterday I was lucky enough to see Edward Tufte speak in the gorgeous surroundings of the Royal Geographic Society in London. The talk was based around his most recent work Beautiful Evidence and his theories around information presentation, including of course an examination of Charles Joseph Minard’s famous flow map of Napoleon’s Russian campaign (of which [...]
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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)
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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.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

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