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Design Regression is a journalette (mini journal) publishing texts that are about design for reading and reading-related research. It aims for the hard-to-get blend of approachability with seriousness and relevance to practice.

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Design Regression

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Mary Dyson, David Březina

The sequel to exploring disfluency: Do we remember the visual appearance of words?

We have expanded on our online study of disfluency to investigate whether the visual appearance of words is preserved in memory.
26 Apr 2022
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  • Essay
    David Březina

    Elements of multi-script typography: paragraphs and pixels

    The third part of a mini-series discusses the technical requirements for language support at the level of paragraph and rasterization.
    28 Mar 2022
  • Essay
    David Březina

    Elements of multi-script typography: codes, keys, and word shapes

    The second part of a mini-series discusses the technical requirements for language support at the level of encodings, keyboards, and word shaping.
    21 Mar 2022
  • Article
    Marie E. Leahy

    Designing books for readers with early‑stage Alzheimer’s disease

    An account of three studies carried out in order to investigate whether adjusting the design of books could help readers with a memory impairment.
    03 Feb 2022
  • Article
    Yannis Haralambous

    Breaking Arabic: the creative inventiveness of Uyghur script reforms

    Uyghurs have reformed the Arabic script in a very inventive way. We describe the journey of the Uyghur Arabic writing system from abjad to phonography.
    12 Oct 2021
  • Article
    Mary Dyson

    Line length revisited: following the research

    Recent eye movement research is reviewed which questions whether long line lengths do cause reading difficulties.
    08 Sep 2021
  • Research
    Mary Dyson, David Březina

    Exploring disfluency: Are designers too sensitive to harder-to-read typefaces?

    We conducted an online study to see if designers respond in a different way to non-designers to a less legible typeface (Sans Forgetica), exploring judgments and memory.
    18 May 2021
  • Article
    David Březina, Andrea Churchill Wong, Mary Dyson, Matthew Lickiss

    Introducing Design Regression

    Design Regression is a journalette publishing texts that are about design for reading and reading-related research.
    18 May 2021
  • Essay
    David Březina

    Elements of multi-script typography: introduction

    The first part of a mini-series focused on the typographic design of documents that make use of two or more different world’s scripts.
    18 May 2021
  • Review
    Mary Dyson

    The devil’s in the g‑tails

    A review of the 2018 paper by Kimberly Wong, Frempongma Wadee, Gali Ellenblum, and Michael McCloskey with interesting points about memory for letter shapes
    18 May 2021
  • Review
    David Březina

    Character complexity and redundancy in writing systems over human history

    A review of the 2005 paper by Mark A. Changizi and Shinsuke Shimojo exploring attributes shared across world’s scripts
    18 May 2021

Design Regression is a journalette (mini journal) publishing texts that are about design for reading and reading-related research. It aims for the hard-to-get blend of approachability with seriousness and relevance to practice.

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