Wax on Wax off, The Karate Kid approach to designing web applications

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My Mum is addicted to recipe books, She has so many that they regularly tumble out of the over-packed corner kitchen stand. Jamie Oliver, Rick Stein, and Madour Jaffrey, with their bold and colourful print and pristine covers, stand tall with their perfectly intact spines — for they go almost entirely unused.

Except for one book which lies battered dishevelled and broken in pieces. Delia Smith’s “How to Cook” has been a part of every Bentley family occasion since I can remember, providing its little secrets for practically well cooked food in a beautifully simple prose.

Communicating Design contains all the same virtues as Delia’s 1970s culinary bible. Continue reading →