Bumptop Desktop: What To Do When You Find Out You've Been Living in a Box
June 30th, 2007 in Web Design Culture
by: Matthew Griffin
To give credit where credit is due, I saw Bumptop on Cameron Moll’s blog. This is a great example of how we can become stuck in a one dimensional way of thinking when it comes to design. You’ve probably heard the story of the woman who cut off an inch around the edge of her pot roast before she cooked it because that’s the way her mother did it and her mother’s mother did it. When her grandmother is confronted with the question of why, she tells her granddaughter that she simply never had a pan big enough to fit the whole roast.
When I saw the Bumptop demo I imagine I felt about the same as that woman did when she found out she was wasting good roast. In web design, as technology and bandwidth go up, we should always be looking for new ways to “fill the whole pan”. If you don’t, someone else will.
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