School - Gosafeonline. Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. Tutorials. Online Search. DSLR newbie guide. Functioning Form - Design Comes in Threes. Though the word design gets used to describe lots of things (visual stylings, system architectures, interactivity, etc.), I’ve always considered it to be three things: In particular, a lot of recent articles on Functioning Form have focused on the third point –design is communication- especially as it relates to the strategic value of design. So naturally I found it interesting that when was asked to define design in one sentence each of the panelists in Good Design vs. Great Design emphasized communication: Cameron Moll: Design is about communication but cannot exist without a medium of some sort. Veerle Pieters: Design is away of communicating emotions. It expresses feelings so its design.Jon Hicks: Debate how ugly design or no design wins it misses the point that design is about communication.
Also of note was Cameron Moll’s comment that “the feedback I've been privy to seems to indicate the developers enjoyed [the panel], while the designers felt it was a bit too Graphic Design 101.” Visuals. It's been almost two years since I wrote this post comparing the approaches to presentation by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Since PowerPoint 2007 has been out quite a while now I wondered if Bill Gates' visuals and delivery have improved along with the software. So I watched this entire Bill Gates presentation recently (twice).
Now, I like Bill Gates a lot. He's a nice guy and he's certainly a great philanthropist. I am not suggesting that Bill Gates change his presentation style (though I'd pay my own way to Redmond and work for free to help Bill with his next presentation). Bill needs to be stickier Remember that the Heath brothers found that sticky messages have six key attributes in common: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions, and stories. Bill & Steve reduxYou may say that comparing Bill's presentations and Steve's keynotes is apples & oranges, that it's not fair to compare Bill's talk about technology trends to Steve's product introductions. Color Scheme Designer 3.