- Rating:
- 4
I learnt card sorting via trial and error, lots of practice, reading the occasional blog or article, fine tuning as you go, that was while ago.
Back then Perth was a little isolated, in has only been recently that web based workshops or conferences have been held in Perth that we have had excess face to face with the best of the web.
This is where practical books like Donna Spencer’s Card Sorting can fill the gap.
Now you would think that this book would be a waste of time for someone like me. Well that’s what I thought too, but I was wrong.
- 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.
- Rating:
- 4
Being a freelancer is the new black. It’s just a crazy fun loving world where nothing can go wrong. Well as a crusty old freelancer I can tell you that’s far from the truth.
Well Miles Burke in his new book The Principles of Successful Freelancing discusses just that. Miles is no stranger to making the leap into world of freelancing having done it three times.
- Rating:
- 3.5
Painting the Web by Shelly Powers is not the type of book I would normally pick up. Having 14 years web design experience means that you tend to have absorbed something in the way of use of graphics on the web, from raster images, to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), which is what this book is all about.
Looking at this book from its title alone, I first thought, Painting the Web was a book on SVG. But I was wrong, well partly wrong.
