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#150: Hey designers, if you only know one thing about JavaScript, this is what I would recommend Sometimes, to start a journey into learning something huge and complex, you need to learn something small and simple. JavaScript is huge and complex, but you can baby step into it by learning small and simple things. If you're a web designer, I think there is one thing in particular that you can learn that is extremely empowering. This is the thing I want you to learn: When you click on some element, change a class on some element. Boiling that down to the absolute essentials, imagine we have a button and a div:
user advocacy and human-centered design Published 1986 (re-issued 2002). 2013 revised edition. The Design of Everyday Things (DOET) was first published in 1988. The book is about how people interact with technology. The principles of interaction are mostly unchanged -- they still apply today. But the technology is very different. Time to revise.