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Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing
In order for design to transform business, it must first transform itself. It must leave behind the language and mindset of engineering. Get past scalability and extensibility. Systems and components. Agility and usability. Usefulness and seamlessness. Efficiency and friction. Data and metrics. Patterns and code.
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
e-books be presented in a landscape format, rather than the white paper's portrait format, because the
David Meerman Scott • The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly
and so on. Here’s how the new typography system solves these problems.” •One of the guerilla tactics Vitaly Friedman and his team have been applying is dedicating each day to a component in the interface. They’d have a carousel day, a lightbox day, an accordion day, and so on. Everybody would receive a print-out highlighting the component and its v
... See moreAlla Kholmatova • Design Systems (Smashing eBooks)
We love our physical books — a kind of machine — in ways few others love their machines, their software. We have relationships with these simple, hand-powered contraptions that can span decades. And so of course we want our experience with a book — digital or otherwise — to feel not only great but trustworthy. Print has had hundreds of years to ach... See more
Craig Mod • As We May Read
Part of the problem is metaphor. We’re still importing models from legacy media, even as the technical capabilities of the web expand. The “desktop,” the “page,” the “homepage.” But what if we started from scratch with forces native to the web, such as time, movement, depth, interaction?