Web Design Culture (Archive)

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  • September 5, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    Know What's Going On In New Media

    In any industry, but especially in new media, it is important to keep up with what's going on. It keeps you from getting behind the curve and it invigorates your work when you see the cool things that other people are doing. Two good places to "get your learn on" are Vitamin News and Digital Web. I think they both do a good job of keeping a finger on the pulse of new media.

  • August 29, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    Zeitgeist Movie : The Downside of Universally Accessible Self-Publishing

    The success of the full length online documentary Zeitgeist is a huge step toward bringing professional video content to the web. It's also a pungent reminder to the web community at large that we are now the gatekeepers of content. In case you haven't heard...

  • August 28, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    Cool Today, Passe Tomorrow

    This is really just a quick observation but I think it's an important one...

  • August 9, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    I'm Addicted to Changing My Desktop Wallpaper

    If you’re anything like me, you are never completely happy with your desktop wallpaper. There’s always a better JPG just beyond the horizon. It doesn’t make any sense but it’s true. Possibly to my detriment, I recently discovered desktopography.net. It has a limited selection but every image is noteworthy. You’ll at least have enough choices to rotate for a few months. Here’s my current pick.

  • August 3, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    Web Design-isms: 7 Surefire Styles that Work

    This is just an interesting post on Vitamin about Web Desing-isms. It’s soooo true, yet it conjures up a feeling of pride over your industry isms.

  • July 20, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    A Really Bad Design Rip Off

    31Three is a design studio with a popular blog I happen to read. Recently, they came across another group�s web site with a strikingly similar design to their own. I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but this is laughable Check it out Here on Flickr.

  • July 17, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    The Semantic Web is a Utopian Dream... Welcome to Reality

    When Sir Tim Berners-Lee and W3C consortium first developed the concepts that would become the foundation for the semantic web, they were trying to address a serious issue concerning the web. Namely, that the potential of the convergence of knowledge found on the web could not be fully realized because of its organic and unpredictable nature. In other words, we had a big ugly mass of information and no easy way to index and share it. The Utopian solution of the W3C consortium essentially involves the cooperation of all web site designers in conforming to a set of rules that will make the information on their sites easy to parse, index, share, etc. For those of you heavily involved in the world of web design, this gospel is all too familiar. Of course, I do my best to design by standards but ultimately, that system is doomed to fail for two key reasons: 1. Technology is unpredictable. As soon as you settle into the standards that apply to one technology, a completely new one comes along. 2. Designers are unpredictable. Some are too new to know about standards and some are just too lazy to care. All accessibility issues aside, the point is that we are much better off preaching the cause of specific and limited information exchange in technologies like RSS. We need easy-to-use lightweight means of getting only the most pertinent information out. We don�t need a Utopian revolution.

  • July 15, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    Rising Postage Costs: Death for Independent Printed Publications

    Postage has gone up in price several times in the last few years but what you may not know is that the last increase included an additional increase for magazines. For many small independent printed publications, unfortunately, this may be the beginning of the end. However, necessity is the mother of invention as they say. So as a member of the new media community, I would like to encourage my colleagues to use this hurdle as an incentive to push failing publications to the web. An internet model will sound like a great alternative to shutting down completely. Let’s face it; we are the future and this blow from the post office may just be the shock that forces the media industry to get creative with their delivery.

  • July 8, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    Wired Magazine Takes a Cue From the Web

    Recently, Wired Magazine ran a promotion with Xerox in which they allowed subscribers to upload a photo that would then appear on the cover of a special personalized issue in July. Of course, I had to take advantage of the offer so as soon as I had a chance, I cropped a nice picture of my son covered in Spaghetti Os and uploaded it. We talk a lot about the web as the only future of information exchange but it will be a while before print is essentially out. In the meantime, there have been some pretty amazing developments in print technology that allow for some exciting new applications. Wired has taken the soul of MySpace (Personalization) and applied the same concept to a printed magazine.

  • June 30, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    Bumptop Desktop: What To Do When You Find Out You've Been Living in a Box

    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. Watch the Video

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