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]

I have Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics ... somewhere ... have even read the first one!

And yes, though I hadn't really thought of it, they are an excellent primer in layout and semiotics. Hmm. Will review.

What/where Nielsen/Tog?

You can't get Transmetropolitan in the City of London.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

but you will bring the camera, won't you? ... utterly unimpressed by various film-processing outlets this week.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

In the backpack already...

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Usability gurus. Jakob Nielsen, Donald Norman and Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini. Right a lot of the time. And certainly interesting to argue about with design folk...

This is their company's site (http://www.nngroup.com/)

[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..."

[(Anonymous)]

These are the sma eguys that Geoff Ryman goes on about. Have you talked to him about his web useability/disability access work? Lil

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

ooooh look, an Anonymous Lillian!

Why aren't you a real person? Oh go on. Show yourself.

No, haven't really chatted about that sort of thing with Geoff - way more likely to be archaeology and (ahem) slash right now ...
... have just had Horrid Image of Archaeological Slash. Carter and Caernarvon [??]. I really wish that hadn't happened.

I know archaeologists

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

... so I wish you hadn't thought of that as well.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Heh. I went to Gosh at lunchtime to pick up the new issue...