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The Elements of Typographic Style
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Poorly formatted book
The writing style of this book can make it difficult to read. Long walls of text, references to terms that are never defined, and a lack of captions. There is a lack of visual examples, and the small font makes it easy for a reader to lose their place.
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Provides a comprehensive overview
The book is designed to cover all aspects of typography which makes it a good intro book for readers who are new to the subject.
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Covers the history of typography
Throughout the book, typographic practices are explained along with their historical significance. Many terms and practices in typography are steeped in history, and learning it helps understand both the rationale, and significance of their adoption, and as a result, what role they play in modern typography.
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Don't Make Me Think
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Short and focused
The book understands it's goals and has a clear purpose. How to get people to understand, and accomplish their goals on the site. As suggested by the name, the book is to the point and doesn't waste time.
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Poor binding quality
There have been complaints with the quality of binding with the 2nd edition book.
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Clear examples
Many visuals and real world examples of good design are provided, making it an easy to understand and read book.
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Digital Design Essentials
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Great as a reference
This book works as a great reference for explaining design decisions to clients or coworkers, as both explanations and examples are provided.
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Basic overview of web design
This book is most beneficial for beginners just starting out with web design and UX as it's not a resource with much depth. Someone with an understanding of design essentials may find this book fairly repetitive and common sense.
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Each topic includes a case study
Multiple case studies (over 100) are provided throughout the book to demonstrate the theory discussed.
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Universal Principles of Design, by William Lidwell
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Backs up well known theories
Many of the theories presented in the book will already be familiar to designers. However this book backs up the theories with data, additional research and examples that encourage the designer to consider the theories in different ways.
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Theories are not described in depth
Each theory has two pages; one page with visual examples, and another page with a written description. These act more as an introduction to the various theories as they don't go into much depth.
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Variety of theories
There are 125 different theories introduced in the book that cover a very wide range of relevant disciplines (such as psychology and biology).
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Design for hackers
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For programmers
The book is specifically written for developers who aren't sure how to approach design problems.
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Disjointed and hard to follow
Rather than providing proper context, and author frequently tries to tie points together by using backwards and forwards references ("As you've seen in chapter ___,"). Though there is a lot of interesting points throughout the book, nothing ties together so it can be hard to make sense of.
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Too philosophical at times
The author goes into detail about things that would have been far better explained using practical examples. For example, a rant on why Comic Sans is bad but no discussion on font selection for the context.
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