- Rating:
- 4.5
As I’m designing forms I don’t usually have an issue making then usable or accessible within the limits of the clients budget.
However taking the form to the next level technically can sometimes be an issue. This is exactly what Fancy Form Design by Jina Bolton, Tim Connell and Derek Featherstone is all about, designing and building those great forms on the web.
When I first purchased this book (yes I do purchase my books, they aren’t usually review freebies) I was a little skeptical as to whether this book would have any content in it that would be relevant to me. This is an issue that I’m running into more and more these days.
Tagged: accessibility, design, enhancement, forms, jquery, project-52, review, ui, usability, ux, webdesign
It’s one of those wet August days in Perth when the sunny and rain just can’t make up their mind who really wants to be the dominate partner. In a similar way a web design business can wrestle with a similar issue. Do you use someone else’s pre-built templates or do you roll your own designs.
Between User Experience and Information Architecture gigs I usually squeeze in a little standard front end web site development. Over the years I have rolled my own, designing each website from scratch to the final interactive site. I have prided myself in this production of a higher quality result that my clients where looking for. Something unique that they knew was a once off.
Sometimes you come across something that you just have to share. The other day I got the chance to go back in time. Back in the past, to feel and to see something of raw beauty that I personally have not experienced before.
Im talking about the work that I found in an exercise book and the craftsmanship in some Victorian era books.
The work in the school exercise book was lovely completed by a middle class Irish 10 year old, under English rule at the time. Those 03 dates on this work are not from 2002, but 1902, all the way back to the Edwardian era.
- Rating:
- 4
If you have read as many web design books as I have you find that they fall into basically two categories:
- The ones in which the author waxes on about how wonderful they are at design, show off page after page of their own portfolio. The entire book becomes a publicity fest.
- Then there is the type of book that is presented in a level headed manner, it is a great reference of the step by step process that web designers go through to product a web site.
