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Recent (well, kinda) talks and podcasts I find inspiring.

• How design teams in Facebook works, how actaull problems are solved and why data driven design isn’t sometimes the best way. Julie Zhuos at ZURB podcast on how Facebook uses data.
• Pravidla stárnou. Jsou však založeny na principech, které jsou trvale platné. Martin Kopta na Barcampu o návrhových vzorech a pravidlech proti principům návrhu uživatelského prožitku.
• Times New Roman serif’s are a bit thinner to look fine when they feather, printed on crappy paper. See Mark Boulton explaining the origins and principles of typography.
• Massimo Vignelli in Helvetica movie speaks about the fact, that what we actually design is the space between letters. Listen to Liz Danzico speaking on the importance of pause: “white space” not just in design.
• Designer Andy Rutledge joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss choosing clients, running a small company, coming to a design from retail, and more. Watch Big Web Show episode #40.

Seznam titulů z poslední doby, které zaujaly (zatím jsem nečetl). Za doporučení díky především @givision a taky regálům v University of Portsmouth Library.

• Tak nám prý forma sleduje funkci o designu vůbec. Měla by jít koupit na VŠUP a rozhodně stojí za to.
• Understanding Design jsou eseje o designu. A pokud se vám líbily Štormovy Eseje o typografii, pak kniha How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer bude něco pro vás – rozhovory s významými designéry. Četl jsem, stála za to.
• Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type je jedna z lepších o gridech. A důrazně doporučuju Ordering Disorder (četl jsem, pro webdesignéra výborný odrazový můstek do světa gridů).
• The Internet Case Study Book a Guidelines for Online Success jsou o to lepší, o kolik jsou dražsí. Ultimátní zdroj inspirace a inovativních řešení.
• Hustý Grid Index, Islamic Geometric Patterns a jakékoliv další knihy o grafických vzorech. V knihovně jsem jich našel spoustu a věřím, že pro art direction určitých projektů to může být nevyčerpatelný zdroj inspirace.

• Ian Cole is a world-class visual and interaction designer. Author of the recently praised Nike Better World. His works are highly interactive and innovative.
• Nicholas Felton is an information and data designer from NY. Rather than information graphics designer, Nicholas is best known for several Personal Annual Reports (see the latest one) that reflect his year’s activities via graphs and maps.
• Anne Lamott, the author of Bird by Bird, a book about writing, explains the actuality of co called “shitty first drafts“. Every design comp one produces has to start somehow. Anyhow. Therefore every first draft by ANY designer must be so shitty.
• Holger Lippmann is a generative art guru from Germany. A brilliant intercourse of technology and fine arts. See his works at Behance.

Great talk named Pain Free Design Sign Off on handling Web site design process and clients and by Paul Boag at SXSW. Full length video is available via Boagworld.

• Client knows his users and business. Ask him about it.
• Client should like the web site.
• Confrontation to collaboration.
• Client searches for problems, designer finds the solutions.
• Do have a strong methodology.
• Include client early and often.
• Educate the client why do you work in such a way.