Re: [Sigia-l] [Iai-Members] Architecture for the Information Age
Bernice Glenn <[email protected]>
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Hi Peter, If you can't read it, you have no substance. Bernice Bernice Glenn Content Strategist • Information Architect • e-Learning [email protected] 310-396-7409 http://home.earthlink.net/~btglenn/ Peter Morville wrote: > I'd agree that readability is important, just as it's important to avoid > putting a comma after a URL in an email message, to avoid compromising > clickability. But, hopefully we will all avoid focusing on surface so much > that we forget about substance. > > > Peter Morville > President, Semantic Studios > http://semanticstudios.com/ > http://findability.org/ > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernice Glenn [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:41 PM > To: Peter Morville > Cc: 'IAI Members'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Iai-Members] Architecture for the Information Age > > It is indeed unfortunate that when you go to http://nowthatiseeit.com/,a > nicely designed site, the interview excerpts are in black type on a very > dark gray background -- utterly unreadable.... Now I See it in this case is > Now I don't. > Add this to the discussion on Web Aesthetics. How important is readability > as part of the aesthetic? > > > Bernice Glenn > Content Strategist . Information Architect . e-Learning > [email protected] 310-396-7409 http://home.earthlink.net/~btglenn/ > > > > > Peter Morville wrote: > >> Yesterday, Dan Klyn gave a talk called Now That I See It. I wish I'd >> been there. It's worth reviewing both the slides (slideshare) and the >> notes (pdf)... >> >> http://nowthatiseeit.com/ >> >> As an extra bonus, Dan has posted a short excerpt from his interview >> with Richard Saul Wurman... >> >> http://danklyn.com/blog/?p=397 >> >> I found it surprisingly refreshing and inspiring. Cheers! >> >> >> Peter Morville >> President, Semantic Studios >> http://semanticstudios.com/ >> http://findability.org/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IA Institute members mailing list >> Post to this list: [email protected] List information >> (including archives and unsubscribing: >> http://lists.iainstitute.org/listinfo.cgi/iai-members-iainstitute.org >> >> >> >> > > > > ------------ IA Summit 2009: Peabody Hotel in Memphis Pre cons on March 18 and 19 Sessions on March 20, 21, 22 ----- When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. *Plain text, please; NO Attachments Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ ________________________________________ Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: [email protected] Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l