Archived Posts by Larry Buchanan
Designer Josh Rhode on storytelling, making news cool and Ernest Hemingway
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Designer Josh Rhode’s work combines perfect function with beautiful form, whether it’s Nike, Honda, MTV or others. His branding, apps and sites epitomize how information can be useful and incredibly cool. Josh took a few minutes to talk with SND as part of our Year-Long Conversation about Design. He talked about what makes his projects work, the values he has when putting together a project across platforms and why the news should be cool.
Read more on the jump.
• For other QAs and more of the Year-Long Conversation, go here.
iA’s Oliver Reichstein on secrets, making websites, and “business class” news
Monday, April 9th, 2012
As part of our Year-Long Conversation about design, we talk with Information Architects’ Oliver Reichstein
on keeping design simple, iA’s work on Writer and iPad design and a “business class” on the web, where users could pay to get the junk out of the way. “The more design gets out of your way the more space you have to do with an interface what you want to do. Design works, when you don’t notice it.”
Could a “business class” work where you work? Leave your comments below.
– Read more posts from SND’s Year-Long Conversation here.
Behind Upstatement’s bold, new typography app: Glyphosaurus
Friday, March 9th, 2012
Who doesn’t love the voluptuous curves of a ‘w’ or the stout simplicity of a lower-case ‘l.’ So many wonderful ‘g’s in the world. Agree? Well, have we got the site for you. The folks at Boston’s Upstatement have developed Glyphosaurus, a wonderfully entertaining web app that let’s folks share found typography. They sat down with SND over email and told us about the project as part of our Year-Long Conversation about Design
More on the jump.
Joey Marburger on the Washington Post’s new Politics App
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Last week, The Washington Post launched an iPad app that aggregates all of the Post’s political content into a one-stop-politics-shop, good for your average reader and for the most voracious political junkie. But this app is much more than an aggregator. There are videos, maps, visual representations of the candidates positions and how they’ve shifted over
Continue...
The Onion’s design director on iPads, UX, and those miserable looking people in the Onion’s quote-opinion pieces
Monday, February 27th, 2012
How much fun is it to work at the Onion? Turns out, it’s kind of a lot.
Today, as part of SND’s Year-Long Conversation, Veronika Goldberg is the Onion’s Chicago-based design director takes a few minutes to talk with us and tell us. “Everyone is certainly quirky and wonderfully unique. Nothing is off-limits, so unlike most office environments, individuality is encouraged,” Veronika said.
Read our other Year-Long Conversation dispatches here.
Facebook’s Ben Barry on hacking, learning to code, and thinking on his bike
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
As news of everyone’s favorite social network going public ripples across the world, SND took a few minutes to trade questions with Facebook designer Ben Barry to talk Facebook, design, user experience … and coding.
A sample: “You need to know the technical constraints of the medium to know what’s possible and you need to know how to work with an engineer to execute your vision.”
This is part of a series of interviews in SND’s Year-Long Conversation
.
Mandy Brown talks design, news and, ahem, reading
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Is the web a good place to read? We spend more time than ever digesting digital text from sites and feeds, but is it a good reading experience? Especially for those who spend clicks on news sites, it seems there is much stacked against the simple, and central, act of reading.
Today we talk with one of the web’s best, Mandy Brown, about readability, and design. Mandy’s passion for reading is what fuels her design. Read her work on A List Apart, A Working Library. Our interview is on the jump.
This is our second dispatch in SND’s Year-Long Conversation. Find last week’s post here.
Eye-trap: What happens when you trace over the reading wells on popular news sites? Check the results of our eye-trap readability study.
Join the discussion: We’ll host an ongoing discussion of readability on the web on Twitter with the hashtag #readme. More on that discussion here.
