{"id":79,"date":"2008-12-22T21:29:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T02:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2008-12-22T21:29:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T02:29:25","slug":"design-elegance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Design Elegance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elegant and crisp interface design is an important whether you&#8217;re designing an automotive dash or a command-line tool.\u00a0 I find good design practices can be harvested from a variety of seemingly unrelated sources.\u00a0 The underlying thread, is to keep things as simple and straightforward as possible.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been said a million times, but it&#8217;s so true, whether you&#8217;re paring down your argument list or making sure your diagrams have functional uses for the colors you introduce.<\/p>\n<p>Some resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/\">Edward Tufte<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Edward%20R.%20Tufte\">books<\/a>, the first of which (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information-2nd\/dp\/0961392142\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1_s9_rk?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;s9r=8a10809b18796943011b35323775575e&amp;itemPosition=1&amp;qid=1229996399&amp;sr=8-1\">The Visual Display of Quantitative Data<\/a>) has the least eye candy, but the most basic truth in it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faqs.org\/docs\/artu\/index.html\">The Art of Unix Programming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Universal-Principles-Design-William-Lidwell\/dp\/1592530079\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1229996460&amp;sr=1-1\">The Universal Principles of Design<\/a>, a great coffee table book with a different design concept wonderfully illustrated on each page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elegant and crisp interface design is an important whether you&#8217;re designing an automotive dash or a command-line tool.\u00a0 I find good design practices can be harvested from a variety of seemingly unrelated sources.\u00a0 The underlying thread, is to keep things as simple and straightforward as possible.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been said a million times, but it&#8217;s so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[24,25],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","tag-tufte","tag-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}