Designing with White Space: Why 1+1=3

Re:Designing with White Space: Why 1+1=3 by peng on Friday September 02, 2011 @12:02PM (#2954542)

A decent, introductory write-up about white space. It's a bit difficult to take seriously since the design of the blog doesn't use whitespace effectively. Of course, "The shoemaker's children are often shoeless", and all that.

Irrelevant aside: 'dogsfurry' can work. As someone who spends a lot of time with marketing firms and branding agencies, dogsfurry is not an inconceivable label for a high-end pet supplies company.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Designing with White Space: Why 1+1=3 by kadavy on Friday September 02, 2011 @01:06PM (#2954772)

> the design of the blog doesn't use whitespace effectively.

Could you be more specific? My blog definitely needs a design refresh (your quote is right – I've been writing a book the past year so haven't had the time to design), but I'm sure you don't mean that the entire blog design fails to use white space effectively :)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Designing with White Space: Why 1+1=3 by rwolf on Friday September 02, 2011 @03:00PM (#2955188)

First off, thanks for writing Design for Hackers.

What distracted me when I was reading this post is that many parts of the page appear to be improperly aligned: http://i.imgur.com/77bVj.png

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Designing with White Space: Why 1+1=3 by redthrowaway on Friday September 02, 2011 @03:23PM (#2955275)

I found the site jarring in general. The bright yellow hurt my eyes, and the babyshit brown type seemed out of place given that it was used only in the intro and first headline, and didn't fit in with the other colours there. The yellow was the biggest pain for me, however.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Designing with White Space: Why 1+1=3 by bsinger on Saturday September 03, 2011 @03:49PM (#2957980)

Also, a little more padding around the text might look better. It's a little cramped.

[ Parent | on HN ]