Vinh K. Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design

Pearson Education, 2011. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-0-321-70353-8.The grid has long been an invaluable tool for creating order out of chaos for designers of all kinds — from city planners to architects to typesetters and graphic artists. In recent years, web designers, too, have come to discover the remarkable power that grid-based design can afford in creating intuitive, immersive, and beautiful user experiences.Ordering Disorder delivers a definitive take on grids and the Web. It provides both the big ideas and the brass-tacks techniques of grid-based design. Readers are sure to come away with a keen understanding of the power of grids, as well as the design tools needed to implement them for the World Wide Web.