“As soon as I have some time off from teaching, I’ll build a website here. For the time being, here is just a short selection from my bookmarks (…)” (Yuri Engelhardt – Dept. of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam)

“The most effective way to start researching and documenting your content design strategy is to begin with a solid Content Requirements Plan (CRP). This enables you to develop a content design strategy so that your Web design efforts are driven by content requirements and supported by your business leaders or clients. A CRP is a project management-style foundational document to guide every aspect of content, design, development, and measurement for Internet projects.” (GA. Buchholz – Digital Web Magazine)

“This close look at design firm IDEO can tell you how to uncover your hidden breakthrough assets and come up with great new ideas.” (Andrew Hargadon – darwin) – courtesy of challis hodge

“There is a level of expectation that is set with most every interaction that we have. Brand interaction is no different. Whether with an established brand that has been a trusted friend throughout the years or an upstart concept that catches our interest, expectations are continually challenged and anchor our every interaction.” (Stephen Bury – Thread Inc.)

Summary by Rubén Hinojosa Chapel – “Designers make graphics for transmitting some kind of information, which is interpreted by another persons so, it is reasonable to think about the existence of a language behind those graphics. Graphic representations can be regarded as expressions of visual languages. Like any language, a particular visual language involves a particular visual vocabulary and a particular visual grammar. Certain common notational habits, such as the drawing of lines between entities that have some kind of relationship, the arrangement of entities on a time line, or the use of different colors in order to indicate categories of some kind, are shared by many of these visual languages.” (Yuri Engelhardt) – courtesy of elearning

“Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn’t. Instead the drug had frequent, serious side effects: It induced stupidity, turned everyone into bores, wasted time, and degraded the quality and credibility of communication. These side effects would rightly lead to a worldwide product recall.” (Edward Tufte – Wired) – courtesy of beth mazur

“Discoverability is often defined as the ability for a user of a design to locate something that they need, in order to complete a certain task. Itís common to hear programmers and designers utter the phrase ‘that wonít be discoverable’, while pointing to a specific command or link they believe users will fail to find. The trap, and the myth, of discoverability is that in any design, not everything can be discoverable.” (Scott Berkun – uiweb.com) – courtesy of matt jones