Not saying that specifically to Mark who asked the original question. If you're like me and you tend to fall asleep while reading a book that tells you why the 3rd frontal lobe from left to right tends to like two squares next to each other when you put a rounded border at the bottom left of the right hand one, I suggest you do two things:
1) pick up some good skills with Illustrator, Photoshop, or Pixelmator. There's an endless stream of blogs with good material. Chris Spooner runs a pretty good one at http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/. 2) learn a style of design (e.g.: print design, posters, ads), then apply it to web design. Seriously, anyone can design websites that just look like... websites. That's like saying food should have just salt and nothing else. Then yeah, read books such as the ones suggested. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Chris Darroch <ch...@chrisdarroch.com> wrote: > I'd highly recommend "The Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin. Raskin was a > psychologist who worked in human computer interaction, and subsequently the > book has a heavy focus on people's cognitive capabilities as applied to user > interface design. It doesn't deal with implementation details, but touches > upon key aspects of interaction design and good interface design practices > in general. Well worth the read. > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald > <dylan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> #1 - The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst >> Dylan >> >> On 28 October 2010 11:11, wolfeidau <m...@wolfe.id.au> wrote: >>> >>> Gday all >>> >>> Probably opening a large can of worms, but I am interested to get some >>> recommendations on design related books. I am interested in high level >>> concepts like spacing, typography and layout more than the technical >>> side of web design. >>> >>> I have read quite a bit on the 960 Grid System and it's use in say >>> blueprint CSS, but I am looking for something a bit higher level. >>> >>> I was quite impressed by the design presentation I caught at a >>> Melbourne RoR meeting quite some time ago and would like some more >>> inspiration to improve my skills in this area. >>> >>> Just started in getting into some RoR development so any ideas >>> observations on how others bridge design with rails development would >>> be interesting as well. >>> >>> Looking forward to making the transition to Rails, from many years of >>> Java development, in future :) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Mark Wolfe >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- http://awesomebydesign.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
