Don’t Mistake Legibility for Communication – Analysis | UKEssays.com
Lubalin’s was not design for design, but design for communication.
Steven Heller • Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design
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
It's true, people who find many Chinese software UI's to be busy and crowded can't read Chinese and thus don't understand their localized appeal to the Chinese market. As eye-tracking studies have shown (example), Chinese users scan pages differently, and why shouldn't they considering the fundamental differences between an alphabetic language like... See more
Eugene Wei • Why Information Grows — Remains of the Day
High-modernist (think Bauhaus and Le Corbusier) aesthetics necessarily lead to simplification, since a reality that serves many purposes presents itself as illegible to a vision informed by a singular purpose. Any elements that are non-functional with respect to the singular purpose tend to confuse, and are therefore eliminated during the attempt t... See more
Venkatesh Rao • A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
Now look at the advertisements in the same magazines. You will see that: O Illustrations are given priority over copy. O The copy is often set in sanserif, which is hard to read; we are accustomed to serifs in books, magazines and newspapers. O The copy is often set in one column of 120 characters or more – too wide to be readable. O Few of the pho
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