Photo by Matt Jones aka moleitau.

Interfaces are made of words

Carl Collins

Carl is likely to curse.He apologizes in advance if you are offended by his lack of decorum.

Prelude.

Carl Collins@carlrc

At a big digital agency.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

- Ira Glass

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Interfaces are Made of Words

Words

Words

Design

Words

Code

Design

Illustrations

Habits

Letters

Timing

Illustrations

Habits

Letters

Timing

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Breathless.

I’m sorry this letter is so long, I didn’t have time to write a short one.”

- Anton Chekov

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Short bursts of text are highly addictive, like wordcrack.”

- Erika Hall

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illustrations

Tonalities.

From Hugh MacLeod at gapingvoid.

The key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. The key is focus. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text. Many professional writers use SimpleText or Textedit because these are the only writing programs that are totally distraction free. But text editors are not perfect. That’s why we made Writer.

illustrations

Stringing Us along.

howbigreally.com

illustrations

Formalities.

illustrations

Etc.

Illustrations

Habits

Letters

Timing

You get the skills you use.”

~ Spencer Thursfield

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Habits

Keep the Car Running.

From Hugh MacLeod at gapingvoid.

Habits

Who is doing the talking?

Hello Head Copywriter, let’s be Friends.

Hey, Marketing Director, Um, I’m a little lost. Can you Help Me?

Illustrations

Habits

Letters

Timing

Words

Design

Letters

Words are made of Letters.

Web Design is 95% typography”

- Oliver Reichenstein

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6 different "pe treatments.

Letters

Readability.

Iterating on optimal reading solutions.”

- Craig Mod

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Typography is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.”

- Matthew Carter

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Dear Designer,How would you Do this?

Illustrations

Habits

Letters

TIMING

Words

Code

TIMING

GRoundHog Day.

TimING

get Over aWkward.

Engineer,Engineer,What can we do?

RemAINDERS.

Words

Words

Design

Words

Code

Design

All of us who do creative work...we get into it because we have good taste.

- Ira Glass

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CONTAINS AT LEAST ONE ACTIVITY.

http://bit.ly/hoQ24h

Alright. That’s Enough out Of Me.

Thanks.

You’re THe Best.

postscript

Points of Reference.

Punctationby Brendan Dawes

cadence & Slangby Nick Disabato