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Earlier in this series I wrote about improving customer-facing ticketing touchpoints and UX improvements to a internal-facing app. This 3rd post is about the design and thinking behind a valuable— albeit non-tech— touchpoint: a postcard explaining how to use the pen. When we first launched the Pen, it was obvious that we needed to quicken up the front […]
The story begins in 2006 with a trip down Route 66. Day in, day out, I looked at U.S. traffic signs that were either set in the old, somewhat clumsy “FHWA font series” or the new Clearview HWY typeface. Approaching the signs, I would often test myself: which typeface works best from a distance, and […]
Technology keeps improving, thereby expanding possibilities for us. So we have a choice. We can either ignore those possibilities, and merely accept what technology offers, which will ultimately make us lazy. Or we can explore those new possibilities. But to do that, we need to expect more of ourselves.
A new study adds more support to the idea that the right font can help sway health behavior.
Frere-Jones Type is a type design practice in New York City.
Good explanation of "API" and "stack."
Toolkit is downloadable free.
How and why its time for librarians and libraries to break from the traditions of linear single track communication and embrace all the communication channels …
To hear Google's designers explain it, material design is more than a redesign. It's an effort to establish best practices for the fledgling field of interactive design as a whole.
Carrot is more than a vegetable- it's an experience.
As we refine our methods of responsive web design, we’ve increasingly focused on **measure** (another word for “line length”) and its relationship to how people read.
Last week I had the honor of interviewing Shailoh Philips, who worked for the last two years setting up the Media Lab at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, about a project titled Augmenting Masterpieces…
If you find yourself in a bookstore, Peter Mendelsund can be hard to avoid.
Tablet and Mac app that simulates letterpress printing.