“Metacognition is associated with planning, monitoring, evaluating and repairing performance. Designers of elearning systems can improve the quality of their environments by explicitly structuring the visual and interactive display of learning contexts to facilitate metacognition. Typically page layout, navigational appearance, visual and interactivity design are not viewed as major factors in metacognition. This is because metacognition tends to be interpreted as a process in the head, rather than an interactive one. It is argued here, that cognition and metacognition are part of a continuum and that both are highly interactive.” (David Kirsh – Dept. of Cogsci, UCSD)

“You can increase the effectiveness of your visual web designs and graphics by getting a little understanding of two human vision systems researched and written about by Margaret Livingston (a neurobiologist).” (Heather Quinn – evolt.org)

“This colorpicker is (…) more compatible – it now works in Mozilla, and should also work in Opera, since I’m using a much better slider control. I’ve also added 3 more colors, bringing the total auto-generated colors to 9, and the ability to export your colors to a Photoshop color table.” (twysted methyd) – courtesy of nathan steiner

“As contextually-located objects, icons exemplify the big challenges of communication and interpretation when using codified visual languages to convey meaning.” (Uday Gajendar – Boxes and Arrows)

“Successful visual designers well know the audiences they are designing for, and realize that their audiences exist at multiple levels.” (Dirk Knemeyer – Thread Inc.)

“A website needs to be flexible. It needs to be able to change as the organization changes. The more change within the organization the more flexible the website needs to be. Too many websites are still being designed from a print perspective; as if they were some once-off brochure.” (Gerry McGovern)

Always handy for thinking about color usage on the Web (pixylophone) – courtesy of cityofsound

“Perhaps no other design element has as much influence on how we feel in a space (a website, a home, etc.) as color.” (Luke Wroblewski – Boxes and Arrows)

“My hope with this site is that some of you that happen to stumble upon it will more realize the importance of colours – to learn that there is more to colours than you used to think. This will be a step in the right direction for colours on the Web.” (Donald Johansson – Web Whirlers) – courtesy of lucdesk

“Hand picked by digital design pioneer Clement Mok, these high-quality images are drawn from the best of his acclaimed image collection (…). All we require for registration is your name and email address.” (About the Visual Symbols Library) – courtesy of antenna

“We think of colour as an objective thing: Red is red and can’t be seen in any other way. But this is not so. The colour we perceive depends on things like the words we have in our language (our culture) to describe it, the other colours surrounding it and what the brain is expecting to see.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“Preconceived notions are just one of the mistakes people make when they work with a designer.” (Will-Harris) – courtesy of kelake

“Graphic designers are asked to perform the difficult task of being creative every single day. Often, our main priority is to feed our client’s fascination for originality. We experiment with colors, composition, typography, and photography in order to deliver an original visual solution.” – (Maria Acosta – Thread Inc.)

“Visual designers working on the web need an understanding of the medium in which they work, so many have taken to code. Many have entered the usability lab.” (Luke W roblewski – Boxes and Arrows)

“An experiment in language and interface, Plumb Design’s Visual Thesaurus is both an artistic exploration and a tool to explore, study, and analyze the structure of language.” (Plump Design)

“(…) an index of the quarterly print magazine for everyone involved in graphic design and visual culture” (Artificial Environments)

And Other Notes of the Distinction Between Style and Design (Adam Greenfield – A List Apart)