Robert Denton - Media and Design Consulting

Robert Denton - web strategist and designer

Perpetual nodesign in process…
the cobbler's shoes and all that.

Archive for the 'Design' Category

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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

I can’t say it enough.

Blah-Blah Text: Keep, Cut, or Kill? (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
The introductory paragraph(s) found at the top of many Web pages is what I call blah-blah text: a block of words that users typically skip when they arrive at a page. Instead, their eyes go directly to more actionable content, such as product [...]

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Visualizing Fitts?s?Law By Kevin Hale ? Comments (30) ? October 3rd

Tear that Pay Wall Down!

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I know it’s tough to admit you were wrong but I am very glad as are many others around the web, the NYTimes has chosen to open it’s archives.

I will in fact say I told you so, in fact I talked about it twice already here:
Farewell Friedman, Later Dowd, See ya Kristoff, Wouldn’t Want to [...]

A Conflation of UI

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Why Microsoft outplays Apple long term – Scobleizer

Apple doesn’t get developers. They do get whizzy UI.
Microsoft eventually will get whizzy UI. The platform that has BOTH third-party developers AND whizzy UI will win and win big in the marketplace.

I have no quip with Mr. Scoble’s critique of Apple for not having someone appear, even at [...]

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Post Typography

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

typography – a photoset on Flickr

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Paper: A Second Life for Your Museum: 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Miranda July launches a new book in a cool way.

Monday, March 19th, 2007

BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books book swap and book exchange and book trade
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HTML Emails – Taming the Beast

A Guide to CSS Support in Email – Campaign Monitor Blog
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Amberjack: Site Tour Creator – Simple. Free. Open Source.

Monday, March 19th, 2007

visualcomplexity.com | About
VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

Nice compendium of design styles for UI and content layout types on web sites.

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

COLOURlovers Coup.0 :: Color Trends & Palettes

Came across this while looking at Federated Media and realizing the near futility of blogging or publishing unless you really have to… (reminder note: this is my scratch pad)

Pretty great looking color palette site. Funny. There are many color palette sites now. Not to mention all the various color [...]

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

hellolinda – Furniture, Objet, graphic design, Reims-Istanbul, France

The splash page is incredible… too bad that. Why not extend this beauty into your “flash_index” ?

The Grey Lady’s Paywall Cracks?

Friday, March 16th, 2007

‘NYT’ Opening TimesSelect to Students and Teachers for Free

NEW YORK The New York Times is opening up access permanently to TimesSelect to all students and faculty who have .edu e-mail addresses beginning on March 13.

In 2005 I mentioned the forthcoming wall between some of the most excellent columnists as a loss. I still feel this [...]

The Modernist Aesthetic

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

In our world (my family) we lean heavily toward modernist tastes. Our house is not a bastion of this style as the effort to complete refit is an enormous undertaking. There are more like hints and areas leaning toward the modernist aesthetic around our house.

We toss around the idea of buying or building something small [...]