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From Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Design Question
Date Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:37:53 -0800 (PST)
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Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> I don't think that any experienced practitioner would discount the
> importance of the UI. You might have arguments about how pretty you make
> it, but IMO that's what trained graphics designers are for. I used to
> work for one web app shop that had a trained graphics designer on staff,
> and this guy was cerebral. He didn't have patience for the superficial
> special-effects kiddies either; it was all "form follows function" and
> human interface guidelines and minimalism. He was well ahead of his
> time, this was just over a decade ago.

Really?  "Form follows function" is less than a decade old?

And yet I read the first edition of 
http://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Design/dp/0470084111
well over a decade ago.

Hm.

-- 
Lew

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