Ryan Singer on Web Application Usability
June 12th, 2008
Can I get an amen? When you have 41 minutes, this video is really worth the time:
… when you make this effort to use color and size and weight and contrast and style in order to direct attention, and in order to support the content based on importance, very often naturally you get something that looks good. There’s a definite relationship between making things that are clear and well structured and things that also, on the aesthetic side, look good. So that’s great. It means when we put the effort into organizing the page based on importance, priority, and thinking about this sort of user stuff it also helps us on the art side.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:42 am
The concept of heirarchy whether visual or spatial transcends time in design composition. It creates honesty between the few elements and rapid comprehension of the meaning from element to element and from part to whole.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:45 am
sorry for the confusion above. I am not the same Ryan Singer in the video, but ironically I’m an architect of a different kind
June 13th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Ryan. I think your statement is obviously still relevant to this topic even though you’re an architect. I’m pretty sure the discipline of software design has borrowed a few things from architecture. I know my designs, at times, have been influenced by physical artifacts. I do wonder if architecture is ever influenced by software.
Thanks for your insight.