Ryan Joy (atxryan)

A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design

“Mathematics is beautiful.”

Never make that which is a symbol, a specific thing.

Designers should seek greater understanding and command over unity, gestalt, space, dominance, hierarchy, balance, and color.

I'm not a designer, so tools like Grid System Generator are immensely helpful.

Excellent source of visual inspiration from eras past. Thousands of vintage advertisements scanned and organized by date and topic, going all the way back to the 1840s and covering every decade in between.

When Tim and I were discussing the redesign of this site last year, one of the clear goals was to have a graphical style without making the pages heavy with a lot of images. When we launched, a lot of people were surprised that the design wasn’t buil…

A few years ago, using photographs as a background was the reserve of the daring and those who didn’t worry too much about making their visitors wait while the site loaded. Now with broadband and a good understanding of how to compress image file siz…

Each time someone was interested in a local web design meetup here in Austin I would receive an email alert. This has been happening for many months since the first time I sought out such a group. There are already a number of other corollary groups that I attend that relate to this industry, [...]