Thesis Kindle
Mark's 2007 master's thesis is the root of Qpoint's design method, but it survived only as one PDF of wide two-page spreads, hard to read on a Kindle.
The thesis now lives in the repo in three forms: the original PDF, a Kindle e-book with its pictures, and a single-page PDF that reads as designed, plus its full text.
Documents
With file names, on their own page →Start here
What changed
The two changes that matter most, in plain words. Open any one to see it.
- 1
The thesis can be sent to a Kindle and read with resizable text, a table of contents and its pictures.
A real e-book · came from Mark Parson
- 2
The whole thesis was rebuilt page by page as plain text, with 32 of its pictures.
The full text, rebuilt by hand · came from Mark Parson
- A second PDF cuts each wide spread into two square pages, so it reads the way it was laid out. New in this cycle
- A new folder holds the documents the design method rests on, starting with the thesis. In words
How we got here
Each change, traced back to the conversation it came from. A solid mark means the record names the source; a dashed one was matched by the draft and waits for review.
From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.
c70-D2 Two targets: a reflowable e-book for Kindle, and a print-replica PDF that keeps every spread. — Mark Parson
The thesis can be sent to a Kindle and read with resizable text, a table of contents and its pictures.
From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.
c70-D3 Rebuild the text by hand as Markdown chapters rather than trusting text extraction. — Mark Parson
The whole thesis was rebuilt page by page as plain text, with 32 of its pictures.
Thanks to
People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.
Wrote the thesis and chose how to keep it
Author of Looking In: An Examination of Design as Method (2007). He chose its new home in the repo and the two reading formats.
All images
Every picture from this cycle. Click any one to step through them all.
The pairs
Everything captured · 3
The full record 3 decisions · 4 key-change entries · 540 words · 0 captures
The record stays as written, for agents and for audit: Key Changes, every decision, the artifacts and the visual record.
Open the record for c70 →