Dec 22 2008
Design Elegance
Elegant and crisp interface design is an important whether you’re designing an automotive dash or a command-line tool. I find good design practices can be harvested from a variety of seemingly unrelated sources. The underlying thread, is to keep things as simple and straightforward as possible. It’s been said a million times, but it’s so true, whether you’re paring down your argument list or making sure your diagrams have functional uses for the colors you introduce.
Some resources:
- Any of Edward Tufte‘s books, the first of which (The Visual Display of Quantitative Data) has the least eye candy, but the most basic truth in it.
- The Art of Unix Programming
- The Universal Principles of Design, a great coffee table book with a different design concept wonderfully illustrated on each page.
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