Comments on: UX design in print media: designing with the user in mind

By: Agree

Agree — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:48:52 +0000

@Viviane, Agree!

By: Henry Anderson

Henry Anderson — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:44:06 +0000

Link popularity is very important if you want your website to rank high in any search engine.:~,

By: Ellen Lynch

Ellen Lynch — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:43:52 +0000

Great article! I actually had a ‘web person’ tell me there was no such thing as usability in print design. He didn’t understand that all designers, from print to the web, have to think of such things like hierarchy, consistency, and legibility.

By: Blonde

Blonde — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:02:14 +0000

Great article and a nice refresher for designers of all media.

Having worked in branding for some time now, I agree with Matthew’s point on branding. It has got to the stage where we have forgotten that the key to succesful branding and communication is not just consistency but simplicity.

I think we are all guilty of trying too hard to make a brand work, on the premise that the brand will as hard as the designers themselves.

I always try to remind myself that less is often more. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) was probably the best lesson I ever had in my professional career.

Keep it up!

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Weekly DesignLove #2 | DesignLovr — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:05:35 +0000

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By: Maicon Sobczak

Maicon Sobczak — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:08:54 +0000

Muito bom artigo! Apresentou importantes idéias de uma forma simples com exemplos bem escolhidos.

By: uxdesign.com

uxdesign.com — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:08:39 +0000

I appreciate the points here about UX applying to print here. Don Norman, who originated the term, intended UX (for Apple) to apply to the complete end-to-end experience, not just one media or another. So perhaps the real message here is (or should be) not that UX isn’t exclusive to web, but that multiple media designed for a unified experience will yield great UX/branding gains. Greater than “usability design” (whatever that is).

And “web usability or UX design”? Let’s please, please not confuse them. Experience design, sure, but with “user” prefixed we’re squarely in the human-computer interaction (HCI) world.

By: thoferek

thoferek — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:00:58 +0000

User experience design has been around forever – almost. Its just a new term to describe specifically what digital media designers are doing. Graphic designers have always been doing it. Industrial designers have always been doing it. Architects have always been doing it. At least the good ones have. Still, its good to point this out to those who might not realize that designing the user experience is not new and its not just the realm of designing for digital media.

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Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:43:09 +0000

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By: M

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:40:45 +0000

Good article. Organizing information is crucial both in web print.
One thing that regarding the “Hierarchy in print” sample poster, it will be (1) the main text, (2) the picture of the book, and (3) the sub text. The picture with the chunk of black is stronger than the text at the bottom left. If you want to emphasize the sub-title, the text has to be bolder or slightly bigger. It will be the designer’s intention, though.