Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated Book Reviews

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another disappointment from Rockport. This book just like numerous other ebooks available from Rockport publishers is highly disappointing. This book is a great reference that every designer should have. Just don’t buy this version it is not formatted properly. Rockport seems to have a problem formatting their ebooks.

Not created for iBooks. Don't buy this for iBooks. If you want it get the hardcover. This thing isn't formatted for iBooks in any way whatsoever.

It’s fixed, and a great design reference!. There is another version of this book avail in iBooks store… don’t get that one—it still has the issues this one used to have (I don’t know why the publisher doesn’t remove it). I won’t go into detail about the book itself… suffice to say it’s a useful book for anyone designing something to be used by others.

Book format is fixed now. Book format is fixed and nicely done

Amazing book! Fixed for iBooks!. This book is so amazing when it comes to learning design principles. I have the hard copy which is nice to have, but I wanted the digital copy to always have on hand when I’m designing. The old version of this book on iBooks was terrible. But they have now updated it to be an iBooks book and it is fantastic now!

Love the book. Hate the iBook.. First and foremost, this is a review of the way this particular book is rendered and formatted by iBook, not a review of the book itself, which is fantastic. This book is formatted like a PDF and I'm highly disappointed that it doesn't follow what I thought was the standard for iBook publications. You cannot enlarge text like with other iBooks, but instead use the pinch/spread gestures to zoom in/out on various sections of the book. This is lame and robs you of the swipe through pages functionality unless you're zoomed all the way out. This significantly impacts the quality of the reading experience. For a book meant to be about design the publisher seemingly failed to consider the usability of this book in the iBook format in an iPad form factor. That's just lame. I wish I could get a refund. I love reading on the iPad but not when the books are formatted badly. I dislike paper books at this point, but I'd take the print option over this particular $15 (!!!) iPad option any day.

Do not buy this book. It's unreadable.. This book is virtually unreadable in its current formatting especially on an iPad mini. Each page you have to zoom and move so that you can read it. It displays 2 pages at once and there is no way to change this. The content may be good but you honestly will give up after just a few pages. Incredibly disappointed by this sloppiness and generally inconsiderate design on a book that's supposed to be about good design. #ironyexplosion

Like the formatting and the book. It is accurate that this iBook follows a formatting more similar to a PDF than the e-books typically available on iBooks. In doing so, it addresses a pretty major challenge for graphics intensive publications where the location of the graphics relative to text is quite important. Basically, to ensure that the supporting graphics are located in the proper context, the only options previously were to buy a print edition or somehow acquire a PDF file of the book. (A third approach is to do the book as an app; this was the approach of the Push Pop Press-issued Al Gore book. The downsides of that are that they don't go on your Books app, they may lack highlighting, bookmarking capability, etc., and the files can be very very large.) I am encouraged to see this book available on iBooks using an e-book file approach that is similar to that of a PDF. It won't be for everyone – I do recommend that people who are considering purchasing this book download it first as a sample. Also, I do agree that it is not as user-friendly to read it in the locked PDF style formatting as opposed to the standard, very user-friendly iBooks format. But some books simply don't lend themselves to the iBooks format for the reasons described above. My hope is, with the release of this very good book in this format, that other graphics intensive books, such as those by Edward Tufte and Steven Few, will begin to hear in iBooks as well.

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great book. The book is awesome, but if you don’t want to get blind, get the hard copy. It is impossible to read this book on iBook, as another reviewer stated: you cannot zoom in to read the text. I could not read it on Mac 13”. Reading it on an iPad or iPhone is out of the question. Maybe you can ready it on a Thunderbolt.

Zooming. Probably one of the most fundamental design books. However, I can’t zoom in to the text and it is unreadable on my 13” MacBook. The zoom in feature is greyed out for some reason. Maybe Apple can fix this!