Turns out Zayna and I are in the same boat with color – red to be precise, which is a fabulous color, but difficult to use correctly. I also commented on Clay’s discussion of color, which in my mind sparked a “what’s better” debate: good content on a non-designed site or gorgeous design and so-so [...]

I was looking forward to revisiting Edward Tufte this week. In 2000, I scammed a free trip to one of Tufte’s day-long seminars in Crystal City. At the time, I was working for Sallie Mae as one of their web content writers and often, my work required drilling down complicated loan details into digestible webby [...]

I finished up my Type assignment last night. Like most of our other classmates who’ve expressed such things, I spent an inordinate amount of time on it. Even still, I’m not totally happy with it. For the final project, I might do what Ruel did and use a graphic for my rule instead of that [...]

When I found out that I had been accepted into the PhD program, my husband bought me a new laptop. It was sweet and very thoughtful and he said that he had no doubt that me and my new laptop would become the best of friends. And so far, we’ve been joined at the hip. [...]

I commented on Zayna and Laura’s discussion of footnotes, and Carrie’s discussion of good design and history.

(alternatively titled: Why Literal Isn’t Always a Good Thing) I spent the evening with Dreamweaver and my brand new desktop app ColorSchemer Studio. Colorschemer is amazing and magical and dangerous. It’s one of those slick desktop color wheels that allows you look for color and find associated and related color families. For someone who isn’t [...]