Good design
Yanis Markin and
Good design
Design is hard.
But I’ve come to realize that laying out texts properly is 80% of what makes something look clean, and is the easiest thing you can do to make your design much nicer and more usable.
Here are 10 practical tips for improving your text layout.
profile_phototwitter.comDesigner as Writer — Page 1
stasaki.com
- Design Principles – Design for scanning, not reading! Take advantage of conventions. Create effective visual hierarchies Break pages up into clearly defined areas. Make it obvious what’s clickable. Eliminate distractions. Format content to support scanning . Keep paragraphs short. Use bulleted lists. Highlight key terms.
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug – The Rabbit Hole
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris
Form Capital | An Early-Stage Fund & Design Partnership
formcapital.com
Ambiguity in visual design ultimately leads to a greater variety of functions than designs that are functionally fixed.
Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"
The Vignelli Canon
The Vignelli Canon outlines fundamental design principles, emphasizing semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics, along with the importance of discipline, appropriateness, and visual power for effective and timeless design practices.
rit.edu