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This book constitutes the joint thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Documents and Electronic Publishing, DDEP 2000 and the 5th International Workshop on the Principles of Digital Document Processing, PODDP 2000, held in Munich, Germany in September 2000.
The 17 revised full papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement; they are organized in topical sections on links and data structures, typography and authoring, document management and adaptation, digital document processing, and distributed information systems.
One of the ideas I gleaned from this text is that good design–I mean truly splendid arrangement of color and line and content and light and dark and positive and negative and the oftentimes unconscious decisions that go into the *creation* of such (where does inpiration come from, anyway? off topic)–simply can’t succeed or exist or grow as a statement of mathematics.
Hmm. What I mean to say is that Spocking the web experience for Kirks who don’t view, say, the Web, as a psychological and/or mathematical model is to be–at the very least–incomplete. And that’s not so bad. And also otherwise disregarding design via passion via inspiration in favor of GUI-by-psychologist and markup-language-by-programmer is, uh, a real bummer. I mean, to measure a designers work by parameters like user comprehension isn’t invalid at all, just really, really deflating.
Opinion.
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