Space, type, colour and the craft of making things clear.
Look closely at almost any well-made page, printed or on screen, and you will find an invisible grid holding it together: columns, margins and gutters that everything lines up to.Designers have used underlying structures for centuries, in the proportions of…
Read MoreA colour scheme that looks beautiful to you can be unreadable for someone else. Around one in twelve men and one in two hundred women have some form of colour blindness, and many more people read on dim screens or…
Read MoreFor years, websites were designed for a wide desktop screen and then squeezed onto phones as an afterthought. Many people now read mostly on their phones, and the habit has turned around: design for the smallest screen first, then let…
Read MoreEmerson was writing about education, but the line belongs on every designer’s wall. Good work takes the time it takes, and the second draft is almost always better than the first.
Read MoreA 75% keyboard keeps the function row and the arrow keys but drops the number pad and squeezes everything else…
