I’ve been compiling & typesetting the text for Store Design lately, as our first step before a full edit pass. It’s been really nice to get the text all in one place, giving the final work structure & form. I feel like I’ve been making a lot of scaffolding.
The introduction speaks to the spiritual & intellectual impoverishment that obviously exists in contemporary independent ecommerce, and it gets spicier from there. I suspect people will either get it or they won’t. If you’ve been reading our letters over the past few years, none of Store Design will come as much of a surprise. But will the tent expand at all? Do I care?
Draft Revise is once again sold out. Grateful for those who take a chance on our practice. It feels good to exist in right relationship to the practice, to be performing nourishing work again.
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This week, for paid members
- Our design of the week covers how to configure mobile navigation for a luxury brand. Hint: it’s not to make the text smaller. It’s to do rather the opposite.
- Our weekly lesson talks about the relationship between value-based design and redesigns. Spicy!
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Links
- How to pare back offending JavaScript when improving store performance, or: you have 3 different versions of jQuery installed, and they are all hurting you. (Via my pal Karl’s Liquid Weekly, an essential read.)
- Your new social network is Google Docs. I don’t make the rules, I just work here.
- The war between design & “product” continues apace. Is it really product if you just use your job title as overhead to keep practicing design? Related, from the same site.
- Who should take responsibility for harmful design? I mean, probably executives, right?
- Late but still good: a brief summary of Christopher Alexander’s work.
- More on status.