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links for 06 July 2007 – Designing a ‘Quiet Structure’

• Design View / Andy Rutledge – quiet structure
  One of the basic, overriding elements featured in CNN’s new website design and layout is something I like to call quiet structure. Quiet structure is achieved when you de–emphasize the structural elements… and bring a rhythmical consistency to the l
  (tags: layout interactiondesign webdesign)
• TED | Talks | Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren’t we happy? (video)
  Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel real, enduring happiness, he says, even when things don’t go as planned. – eh, I just love the way our brain works
  (tags: happiness psychology cognitive)

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Information Squid » Blog Archive  on July 8th, 2007

[...] Via Leisa Reichart’s disambiguity, Andy Rutledge has a discussion of “quiet structure” on the new CNN site design, contrasted with the busyness of the new USA Today design. [...]

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