Design News & Articles

Whether you’re embarking on the research phase of a new project, in need of some more design inspiration, or just looking for a quiet place to work, it is all too easy to overlook one enormous free resource. William Hicks wants you to know how to be a better designer by taking it offline—at your local library.

Are you a member of all the latest and greatest social networking sites? Tired of re-entering your personal details? Need to keep your information up-to-date across a myriad of accounts, and enable your user base to do the same? You need the foundations of the social web, brought to you by Ben Ward.

Central and peripheral forces put content management professionals under serious pressure. Compliance issues and demands for standard processes thwart Web workers trying to quickly meet the needs of customers. Can one content management system handle both centralization concerns and local autonomy? And what can user experience pros and information architects do to help?

In a world of tangible bits and total information awareness, what happens to learning, decision making, and trust? Peter Morville tackles these and other disturbing questions about the future.