A thought provoking perspective on the importance of clarity in design.
It doesn’t matter how awesome or slick the CSS or ActionScript on your site is. You have to make your site memorable. Your site has to speak clearly. Otherwise it may just end up as a web monument awaiting for another beautiful site to take [...]
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Clarity in Design
March 29, 2009 – 8:07 pm
Milemarker Comments
December 10, 2008 – 1:14 pm
Not that this is or ever will be a problem on this site, but for sites which yield hundreds of comments on each post, the idea of introducing “milemarker” author comments would save a lot of time for readers interested in participating in the conversation.
In the same way a TV show can catch you up [...]
Readability of Large Type
October 23, 2008 – 1:23 pm
An interesting and though provoking perspective by Oliver Reichenstein on why larger type and lower content density is good for readability on the Web.
“Physically 16pt [on screen] is as big as 11pt in print. Huh? Yes, the screen is usually further away, which at such small distances, has a huge impact… 16pt only looks big because we’re used to [...]