There are 12 item(s) tagged with “design” on this site.
Other tags used by these items: history, germany, information-architecture, apple
“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…”
“There are multiple contexts here, but it’s most often used to refer to a specific German art and design school which operated in the 20s and 30s, and the aesthetic which emerged from it. It was a specific organization, but has become a general movement and approach to design. The Bauhaus school and…”
“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…”
“ 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. ”
“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…”
