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Paul Boag exposes web designer secrets

February 5, 2009January 5, 2012

The unholy and disgraceful Bad Boy of the Web, Paul Boag, has tarnished the good names of all web designers worldwide by exposing our deepest, darkest secrets (we have ten of them, BTW) in masked-magician fashion. This blasphemy was brought to our attention by an obviously saddened and shocked Andy Clarke, who also informed us […]

Posted in Babble, Design, Humor, WebTagged Babble, Humor, sarcasm, web design

The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design

July 14, 2008January 5, 2012

It seems to me that in the past 20 years, design creativity has become increasingly driven and limited by design tools, rather than the brains using them. This leads to a high level of design sameness and general lack of creativity. Many (web) design curricula are now tool-based, and I notice many designers skipping or […]

Posted in Creativity, Design, Web

Personal publishing via web services

May 1, 2008January 5, 2012

Jon Tan and Jon Gibbons recently launched a website for Denna Jones. It’s a great-looking site, and it makes no use of a (single, local) content management system. Rather, the content is pulled from several web services, such as Flickr and Magnolia. This is an interesting idea, but I’m on the fence about the approach. […]

Posted in Design, Sightings, WebTagged cms, denna jones, jon tan, web 2.0, web services

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