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This is complete plagiarism from Robin William's "Non-Designer's Design Book." She identifies the four principles of design as Alignment, Contrast, Repetition, and Proximity. She even makes a reference to the fact that "CRAP" would be a poor acronym.

The author simply reorganized the principles, and that's dishonest. http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia...

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The author cites Williams. Is it plagiarism to discuss someone else's work? The blogosphere would look pretty empty.

"There are at least four key principles of visual design that have an important impact on usability. These four principles — contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity — were originally given the engaging acronym CRAP by Robin Williams (the visual designer, not the comedian). You can exploit these four principles to make user interfaces both more attractive and easier to use.

Let’s look at each one in turn."

The author states very clearly in the introduction that the principles come from Robin Williams (not the comedian). Unless the author added this after you commented, I think your comment is excessively accusatory and off-base.

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