Hardboiled Web Design-repost
Date: 24 December 2010 | Posted by: piplos
Five Simple Steps LLP (10-2010) | PDF | 420 pages | 1907828001 | 29Mb
Hardboiled Web Design /by Andy Clarke, Chris Mills, Tim van Damme, and Owen Gregory . Every web designer harbours tales of frustration, limitation and despair. Web design requires skills and knowledge beyond mere manipulation of form, shape, language, colour, message and meaning.
What users don’t see behind those visuals is just as important as what they do see. We have to think about moving parts and engineering solutions, and consider language, metadata, user experiences, and so much more.
Whether we work alone or in teams, we need to follow rules, constantly extend our skillsets, and sometimes even predict the future, dealing with social networks, web apps, microformats, geolocation, magical new devices and augmented realities. Our work goes beyond borders, accessible at any time from any location, on any number of browsers and devices, at varying speeds, on multiple resolutions. And it is consumed by humans, each with a brain a little different from the next
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