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• 155 things
• http://www.designthings.org/#
• Design & transforming
• As simple as possible but no simpler
• Bloom’s taxonomy
• Christopher’s kettle
• Complexity is not the enemy
• Being damn well simple
• Easification
• Hygiene
• Information design
• Nothing is simple
• Optimising vs transforming
• Quality simple vs quantity simple
• Surface simplicity
• The quality without a name
• The reflective practitioner
• Things to know: about this genre
• Transforming
• Reading & cognition
• Schemas
• Processing load
• Sentence processing
• Relevance theory
• Relevance: the reader’s contribution
• Strategic reading
• Metacognition
• Memory tools
• Memory, understanding and use
• Tractable information
• Reading with a pencil in your hand
• 5 seconds, 5 minutes, 5 months
• Document literacy
• Situated literacy
• The rights of the reader
• Born under a bad sign
• Much study
• Cognitive accidents
• Primed reading
• NOT-reading, and NOT-remembering
• Distracted reading
• Hostile reading
• Stressed reading
• What an architect means by reading
• People don’t like maths
• Place memory
• A book is a book is a book
• I have not read or understood
• Context & conversation
• Framing
• World knowledge
• The cooperative principle
• Sharing control: turn-taking
• B2B, B2C and other TLAs
• Branding
• SBAR: structuring difficult messages
• Cooperative media
• Customer journey map
• Documents as places
• Different chairs
• Paperweight
• Politeness
• Moments of truth
• Customer touchpoints
• Information design is not sticky
• Helena’s pocket lawyer
• Welcome to the United States
• Writing & language
• Vocabulary
• Genre: One of these or one of those?
• Basic level language
• Prototypes
• Tell ’em what you’re going to tell ’em
• The curse of knowledge
• Explicit text
• Graphic editing
• Layout as punctuation
• Pedantry
• Peter Wason’s verbal illusion
• Semantic line breaks
• Plain language
• The Pyramid Principle
• Dumbing down
• Metaphors for communication
• The conduit metaphor
• The presumption of memory
• Visual perception
• Gestalt principles
• Similarity principle
• Proximity principle
• Closure and continuity
• Sequence
• Prominence
• Chunking
• Affordance
• The minimally useful difference
• Figure-ground illusion
• Colour perception
• Design patterns
• Symbols as a learned language
• Design patterns
• Dashboards
• Icons and symbols
• What journalists call headings
• Access structures
• Layering
• Gist layering
• The three layer model
• Typography & layout
• Sketch first
• Typographic voice vs hierarchy
• Text typography
• Choosing a typeface: the character set
• Serif vs sans serif
• The right hand edge
• Font, fount or typeface: what’s it called?
• Typographic detail that surprisingly matters
• Fixed, flowed, fugitive, fragmented
• Page, column and line breaks
• Testing & research
• Just noticeable research results
• Research materials: professional, realistic?
• A science of information design?
• Switch tests
• User edits
• Recent research shows...
• Low tech legibility tests
• Testing with users
• Testing – common in advice; rare in practice
• The squint test
• Critiquing design
• Arnold Lund’s usability guidelines
• Redundancy
• Essence, accident or ornament?
• Design pattern critiquing
• The infrastructure layer
• It says...
• Information as theatre
• Risk legibility
• Glanceable
• Nutrition Facts vs the Schumer box
• Trust and graphic design
• Imageability
• Information design and aesthetics
• Plausible distractors
• Pops, heroes and violators
• Professional practice
• Professionalism
• Connoisseurship
• It’s just your intuition
• Theory and practice
• Find a champion
• Magic and logic
• Institutional illiteracy
• The Law of the Penultimate Solution
• Thinking past the visual layer
• Jan White: this is so obvious that it hurts
• International Institute for Information Design
• User-centred or human-centred?
• Books, heroes, history
• Image of the city
• Ken Garland and First Things First
• Dr Hessayon’s Expert guides
• Jan V White
• Guidelines for Document Designers
• From Heap to Skeleton
• Rupert Bear
• Harold Evans’s Pictures on a Page
• The London tube map
• Rob Waller
• About this book

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