Don’t Mistake Legibility for Communication – Analysis | UKEssays.com
Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.
Don Norman • The Design Of Everyday Things
The matter of taste — Callum Flack Design & Development
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Illegibility comes from complexity without clarity. I believe that the legibility of the source is one of the most important properties of the web. It’s the main thing that keeps the door open to independent, unmediated contributions to the network. If you can write markup, you don’t need Medium or Twitter or Instagram (though they’re nice to have)... See more
Frank Chimero • Everything Easy is Hard Again
in UX design (that means designing for the internet) it’s important to consider value and contrast because people see color differently. People who are color blind will have a very different visual experience than someone who is not, so value and contrast are essential in communication to differently sighted people.
All The Wrong Colors
If people have trouble reading the font, they will transfer that feeling of difficulty to the meaning of the text itself and decide that the subject of the text is hard to do or understand.
Weinschenk Susan • 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
Legibility is a concept from James Scott’s seminal work, Seeing Like a State . It’s not a book that lends itself well to one-sentence summaries, but my attempt is “we assume that only what we can measure is real and everything that is real can be measured.”
The book is titled Seeing Like a State , because the idea of legibility as I’m using it here ... See more
The book is titled Seeing Like a State , because the idea of legibility as I’m using it here ... See more