Content tagged with "design"

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People
Book Review
June 27, 2016
352

This is a good and necessary book, but I can’t figure out how to handle it. There’s simply a lot of information in it, and it’s all so good, that it prompts anxiety in the reader as to how they can possible remember/process it all. The book is exactly what the title says: 100 short vignettes about…

Atomic Design
Deane’s Library
Book
6
The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge
Deane’s Library
Book Review
January 1, 2019
145

This book was not what I expected. I thought I was getting a book on information organization and architecture…but that’s not what this is. This is an art book. It’s a collection of the ways people have tried to express hierarchical information in tree forms for thousands of years. It’s a picture…

Design Systems: A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products
Deane’s Library
Book Review
June 27, 2020
58

A good look at how to componentize a design. Lots of emphasis on people and process. I would have liked some code-level analysis, like how you actually manage the markup for flexibility and consistency.

Dynamics in Document Design
Deane’s Library
Book Review
July 10, 2021
228

This is a comprehensive book, to the point where you would kind of need to read it in a group, or make it a point to read it very slowly, synthesizing and integrating as you go. Just reading it from start to finish probably won’t accomplish much. This book is an examination of how human perceive a…