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The Cult of the Complex

A List Apart

In 2001, more and more of us began using CSS to replace the non-semantic HTML table layouts with which we’d designed the web’s earliest sites. But as a designer who understood, at least on a basic level, how HTML and CSS were supposed to work together, I chafed. For who knows what evil lurks in someone else’s code?

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

Since then, pattern libraries have become a commonly used tool in the design process, enabling designers to document and reuse design solutions for common user interface challenges. Finally, the best of these solutions stand out, self-identify, and refine themselves until they reach the status of a design pattern.

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How Hjärta Smärta Challenged the Male-Dominated Status Quo in the Early 2000s

Eye on Design

Long before higher education in art and design was within reach for me, and before my imagination stretched to even considering book design as something one could do for a living, I accidentally found a publication in the school library that absorbed me and still sits in my heart as one of the “magic” books of my life. .

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The art of the interactive storyteller

UX Collective

The source code was posted to a Flash list and the next thing you knew, spinning globes were showing up everywhere. Whether it be film, television, radio, newspaper, a book, music, digital imaging, an app or the internet a story is only as effective as one’s mastery of the medium. Not the storyteller.

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