Hi, I'm reading Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug at the moment: http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html
Even though I have been building websites for more than a decade, I still find it's a good read. Cheers, Rim ----------------------------------------- Rimian Perkins http://www.rimian.com.au he...@rimian.com.au http://twitter.com/rimian 0411 436 480 On 28/10/2010, at 12:33 PM, Chris Darroch 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. -- 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.
