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Yesterday, to my joy I found the latest addition to my book collection in the mail: “The Principles of Beautiful Web Design” by Jason Beaird, published by Sitepoint. Since I’m not a designer, and likely never will be, it’s books like these that at least give me some basic knowledge on how to do simple design work; also, the more I know about this subject, the more I can appreciate the wonderful work proper, trained, skilled designers create.

I’ve been rather busy lately, but if I can squeeze some time out of my busy schedule I look forward to curling up on the couch with this one.

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4 Responses to “Beautiful design”

  1. Xan Says:
    April 26th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    I just got that through the post. Was fairly disappointed by the vagueness of the content. Was expecting it to be a bit thicker too - seeing as the PDF is 600-odd pages.

  2. Ronald Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 9:30 am

    Hey Alex,

    Good to hear from you, and good to get a genuine comment for a change instead of just spam!

    I guess you’ll have to take into account the audience; you already have extensive experience in graphic design, but for non-designer types like me it seemed like a nice collection of pointers to get started on a number of design related topics.

    I started in it but lacked the time to get very far; I’ll get back to this when I can find the time to do a bit more reading.

    Regards,
    Ronald.

  3. Xan Says:
    April 29th, 2007 at 12:26 pm

    The book just seems to be written as a generalised viewpoint, heavily looking at the qualities of what are clearly, already very successful websites - I was pleasantly surprised to see Andrew Krespanis’ LeftJustified in it.

    I suppose it is more of a relation to the general theory of web designs foundations, rather than the actual design process itself, as the title says.

    Bah humbug! Hehe.

  4. Ronald Says:
    April 29th, 2007 at 10:37 pm

    Yeah, the design process seems to be too much of an elusive subject to write a book about…

    I’ve been “designing” a couple of things thusfar (not web sites, mind you), and I have to admit it’s often a iterative excercise of trying out an idea, running into problems, adjusting, rinse, repeat. Hard to describe in detail.

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