Our mission for A Brief Message is a simple one : we want to give you design criticism in short form. We want you to do without.
This is an ingenious little site with a bright future ahead if they can get interesting people to contribute. Stephen Heller is not a bad start…
It has the look of a Khoi Vinh site, and that is a good thing. It’s simple and clean. Every bit of content is laid out with purpose and reason and reinforces the theme of the site, which can be summed up as “short and sweet”.
Our mission for A Brief Message is a simple one : we want to give you design criticism in short form. We want you to do without.
This is an ingenious little site with a bright future ahead if they can get interesting people to contribute. Stephen Heller is not a bad start…
It has the look of a Khoi Vinh site, and that is a good thing. It’s simple and clean. Every bit of content is laid out with purpose and reason and reinforces the theme of the site, which can be summed up as “short and sweet”.
Large, close targets are faster to hit than small, distant ones, that’s Fitts’s Law. A look at the 1954 rule behind buttons, prime and magic pixels, thumb zones, and dark patterns.
Your working memory holds about four things, not seven. Chunking groups loose information into meaningful units that slip past that limit, the psychology behind phone numbers, scannable pages, multi-step forms, and grouped navigation.
The Call to Action hasn’t changed in a decade, but the bar has. A fresh look at prominence, copy, mobile tap targets, and accessibility, with lessons from three major design systems.
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