Jorge Arango

Thinking better makes you better. And few things extend your mind as quickly and powerfully as the humble note. Notes let you fulfill commitments, manage complicated projects, and make your ideas real. Digital notes take you further: using the right tools and a bit of discipline, you can cultivate a "personal knowledge garden" where your thinking will blossom.

San Francisco based Orlando Diaz-Azcuy s mastery of the home interior has made him one of America s most renowned designers. His elegantly composed rooms speak volumes for his spare, intelligent, and disciplined touch. His interiors located in Miami and New York as well as San Francisco combine a modernist approach of architecturally clean lines and urbane sensibility with smart flashes of bold colour or a pedigreed period statement piece to balance a curated look. Regarded by professionals as a dean of interior design and a pioneer of minimalist design since the early 1980s, Diaz-Azcuy has been an epic influence to the worlds of interior architecture and design.

No typology lends itself more naturally to Juan Montoya s creative impulses than tropical residences. There is such a sense of appropriateness to place in the architecture and interiors that our assumption that the designer s stylistic affinity is somehow inborn becomes inescapable. In this book, the reader will visit Montoya-designed residences that occupy ravishing sites in Punta Mita (Mexico), Cap Cana (Dominican Republic), Miami Beach, Fisher Island, and other idyllic oceanfront locales. As much as these homes are escapist fantasias, they are also inextricably rooted to their geographic location and their regional culture. And while their sense of luxury is palpable, so is their lack of pretension, the practicality that makes them functional for the families who reside there, and their resilience to the natural conditions in which they are found. Luxuriate in open-air pavilions with endless views of sea and sand, on sweeping terraces with glimmering pools and dramatic sunsets, and in sumptuous interiors with blue-and-white tiles, intricate beadwork, global textiles, and thatched roofs. This book is a must-have for interior designers, owners or potential buyers of seaside property, and armchair travellers who relish an escape to paradise.

Bold combinations of primary and secondary colours; exquisitely crafted trims, embroidery, lampshades and countless accessories (all designed by her); imaginative room surfaces from silver leaf to custom stencilling ... These are but a few of the signature elements of a Katie Ridder interior. Katie Ridder: More Rooms explores her unique aesthetic room by room to underscore the astounding breadth and depth of her decorating ingenuity. The illuminating text by Jorge Arango details Ridder’s singularly creative approach to the essential elements of the room, including furniture plan, colour, lighting, finishes, pattern, layering and scale. Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs by Eric Piasecki and featuring a foreword by former editor-in-chief of House & Garden Dominique Browning, Katie Ridder: More Rooms provides endless inspiration for design aficionados.

Websites and apps are places where critical parts of our lives happen. We shop, bank, learn, gossip, and select our leaders there. But many of these places weren't intended to support these activities. Instead, they're designed to capture your attention and sell it to the highest bidder. Living in Information draws upon architecture as a way to design information environments that serve our humanity.

Information architecture (IA) is far more challenging-and necessary-than ever. With the glut of information available today, anything your organization wants to share should be easy to find, navigate, and understand. But the experience you provide has to be familiar and coherent across multiple interaction channels, from the Web to smartphones, smartwatches, and beyond. To guide you through this broad ecosystem, this popular guide-now in its fourth edition-provides essential concepts, methods, and techniques for digital design that have withstood the test of time. UX designers, product managers, developers, and anyone involved in digital design will learn how to create semantic structures that will help people engage with your message. This book includes: An overview of IA and the problems it solves for creating effective digital products and services A deep dive into IA components, including organization, labeling, navigation, search, and metadata Processes and methods that take you from research to strategy, design, and IA implementation