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Reading While Distracted: The Skimmers

Thinking Design

Skimming is an approach we all use to consume abundant digital content, and doing so impacts how we read print content as well. And if you’re looking to drive storytelling and showcase your message to the world, we also provide full-service book design and production — from editorial and design to composition and manufacturing.

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5 Best Web Design Books for Website Development

Inkbot Design

In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, where users are increasingly bombarded with information and choices, “Don't Make Me Think” is a beacon of practicality and sensibility. Applying usability testing techniques to identify and solve design problems. Grasping the concept of designing for mobile and touch interfaces.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Perfect for beginners, it introduces universally applicable design concepts like proximity, alignment, contrast, scale, visual hierarchy and more across four concise chapters. With practical applications for print and digital media, mini-exercises let you put lessons into practice as you go.

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The mechanics of non-human personas

UX Collective

Yes, there are important movements like sustainable design, eco design and circular design. Design For The Real World by Victor Papanek / Photo via Twitter We can replace “industrial design” with “interaction design”, “UX design” or “service design” and the quote is still accurate. Tomitsch, M.

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The 15 Best Web Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Before diving into the list, let's look at why books still matter in the internet age: In-depth knowledge – Books allow the space to dig into complex topics that get glossy treatment in blogs and online courses. You'll get richer insights from a 200-page book than a 20-minute video. Are you sold on the power of books?

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The case for using non-human personas in design

UX Collective

This article makes a case for adding non-human personas to the repertoire of personas considered in design projects. Without knowing you have likely already been designing for a non-human stakeholder. Daktronics are a manufacturer of digital billboards based in South Dakota in the US. But more about that later.

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10 Typefaces That Changed the World

Tuts Plus

Although the metal-cast concept of a font was very different from the digital format we use today, the fact that the type could be reproduced quickly and identically makes Textura not so radically different from the OpenType and TrueType fonts used on computers now. . Didot: The Typeface of Aspiration.

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