{"id":459,"date":"2011-09-28T23:27:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T04:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2013-12-23T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:50:15","slug":"design-for-hackers-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/design-for-hackers-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Design For Hackers &#8211; First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got my copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/o\/asin\/1119998956\/pchristense03-20\">Design for Hackers<\/a> by David Kadavy. I&#8217;ve followed the writing and marketing of this book since it showed up on Hacker News months ago.  I&#8217;ve read the first chapter so far and I&#8217;m enjoying it so far.  David presents himself as very knowledgeable, but not in an obnoxious way.  Instead he seems like he&#8217;s genuinely awed by the power and value of design and he&#8217;s bursting at the seams to convey that information.  I&#8217;ll write some more about it when I finish.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve tried to do lately with books is to get the big picture message besides just what the words say.  Not every book has one, but here are a couple things I picked out of the first chapter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Section headings are in a sans-serif font while text is in serif.  I assume this is demonstrating how to separate markup from content.<\/li>\n<li>Paragraphs are all roughly the same length.  This makes the text flow and let me get into a good rhythm while reading.<\/li>\n<li>The page headers have the chapter number in bold, chapter name in regular, same font.  This both unites and distinguishes the parts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these points have been referenced in the book so far, and I don&#8217;t if the were intentional or even true.  I&#8217;m just trying to see what a book about design says about design.<\/p>\n<p>Great job David and I can&#8217;t wait to keep reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got my copy of Design for Hackers by David Kadavy. I&#8217;ve followed the writing and marketing of this book since it showed up on Hacker News months ago. I&#8217;ve read the first chapter so far and I&#8217;m enjoying it so far. David presents himself as very knowledgeable, but not in an obnoxious way. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazgP-7p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}