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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. If you entered web design and development in the past ten years, you’ve likely learned and may rely on frameworks. A Book Apart: The New CSS Layout , by Rachel Andrew.

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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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The art of the interactive storyteller

UX Collective

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. The most effective piece of Television I have ever seen was the night of the start of the Gulf War in the early 1990s.

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