Dynamics in Document Design
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KAREN A. SCHRIVER, PhD, is an internationally recognized expert in document design. Her positions have included the Belle van Zuylen Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Utrecht in Holland, Research Director of the prizewinning Communications Design Center at Carnegie Mellon University, and Research Associate for the National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy at Carnegie Mellon and the University of California at Berkeley.
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SITUATING DOCUMENT DESIGN.
What is Document Design?
Evolution of the Field: Contextual Dynamics.
OBSERVING READERS IN ACTION.
How Documents Engage Readers' Thinking and Feeling.
The Impact of Poor Design: Thinking about Ourselves as Users of Texts and Technology.
Seeing the Text: The Role of Typography and Space.
The Interplay of Words and Pictures.
RESPONDING TO READERS' NEEDS.
What Document Designers Can Learn from Readers.
Appendices.
Bibliography.
Indexes.
Colophon.
What is Document Design?
Evolution of the Field: Contextual Dynamics.
OBSERVING READERS IN ACTION.
How Documents Engage Readers' Thinking and Feeling.
The Impact of Poor Design: Thinking about Ourselves as Users of Texts and Technology.
Seeing the Text: The Role of Typography and Space.
The Interplay of Words and Pictures.
RESPONDING TO READERS' NEEDS.
What Document Designers Can Learn from Readers.
Appendices.
Bibliography.
Indexes.
Colophon.
