I just look at the pictures

[tamaranth]

Scott McCloud's I Can't Stop Thinking ...

Used to read many more comics than I do now. But tempted all over again by what McCloud writes.

(Should, of course, also be commenting on what Gaiman writes. And it is 'writes', these days. American Gods is a fine book, even considering its relative lack of rivers. And no, it is not 'just the same as Sandman').

But I digress.

Am heading out to buy Transmetropolitan, because I liked what I read. And maybe if it is not solid text I can read it. (Reading solid text, in book form, for more than about 20 minutes sets off twitches, neuralgia, migraines and depression-at-not-having-finished-Years-of-Rice-and-Salt)

Comments

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Nielsen is the 'less is more' chap, yes? Used by me and no doubt many others as an excuse for a simple site?

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's a reasonable summary of his work. However I believe he misses out crucial issues - especially the concept of "flow", which is it at the heart of interaction design. There's more to web design than simplicity (just as there is a lot more than "skip into").

Which reminds me.

The official collective noun for web designers is a skip intro. So, "see those blokes with number 2s and dark glasses? No, they're not vampires, it's a skip intro of web designers..."