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Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design
Looks at ways to create, document, maintain, and organize reusable components in Web design.
340 pages, Paperback
First published July 4, 2009
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Nathan A. Curtis
1 bookNathan co-founded EightShapes with Dan Brown near Washington, DC in 2006. He's passionate about information architecture, user experience design, and front end development, and leads and consults with design systems teams to chart a strategic path and optimize operations. He wrote Modular Web Design in 2009, blogs about design systems regularly, and speaks at events worldwide.
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May 18, 2012
This book focuses mostly on graphical design and would be most beneficial to those who create wireframes and visual designs, not developers dealing with code. Virtually all techniques mentioned here are for keeping graphical designs and mockups in check.
It's a very good book for web designers who aren't developers - tons of professional advice and hints and tips. It suffers from the wordage though. The language might be too techy for non-devs and a good portion of the book is spent on explaining why designs should be modular. (I have to admit I may be biased though, it did feel like preaching to the choir to me.)
As a developer, I hope more designers will read this book and apply the advice to their work :)
It's a very good book for web designers who aren't developers - tons of professional advice and hints and tips. It suffers from the wordage though. The language might be too techy for non-devs and a good portion of the book is spent on explaining why designs should be modular. (I have to admit I may be biased though, it did feel like preaching to the choir to me.)
As a developer, I hope more designers will read this book and apply the advice to their work :)
March 17, 2021
Muy bueno, tiene ejemplos viejitos de design systems con InDesign 😬, pero en sus metodologías y rutinas de equipo cubre cosas que a hoy funcionan perfectamente, al ver cómo se trabajaba design system hace unos años entiendo que somos afortunados por tener tan buenas herramientas hoy. En sus 15 capitulos reforce mis conocimientos para las entregas al team dev, anatomías, documentación y aclare mucho más el proceso de equipo para avanzar con el design system.
October 5, 2009
Since we already use a component-based system where I work, this one was pretty much preaching to the choir for me. But I think it's a great introduction to using components, and I picked up a lot of useful things, too.
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