The web of tomorrow is a ‘statusverse’ that includes links, opinions and images – all hacked into bite-sized chunks that can be rapidly digested as ‘streams’.
Category Archives: Design
Using the Transcendent Web for Good
In his 2009 SXSW Presentation, ” Everything You Know About Web Design is Wrong “, Dan Willis talks about the Transcendent Web and the idea that tomorrow’s web sites will no longer be billboards but instead will be data aggregators. … It’s not to hard to imagine a web site that pulls data from Flickr and Twitter and lays it over Google Maps to show where humanitarian travesties are taking place or where ecological hotspots exist.
The Elements of Design
To an outsider, the visual aspects of web design seem like a confusing and mystical proposition that involve intuition and an arcane knowledge of Photoshop commands. While this is partly true, it’s also the case that there are readily understood concepts that all high-quality designs share.
The Designers Toolkit: Personas
In ‘The Designers Toolkit’, we take time to pull back the curtain and reveal some of the tools that we use to create better web sites.
A persona is a user archetype we use to help guide decisions about product features, navigation, interactions, and even visual design. By designing for the archetype—whose goals and behavior patterns are well understood—we can satisfy the broader group of people represented by that archetype.
The 7 Principles of Design
Why do some designs look more professional than others? These are the 7 design principles we follow when creating new designs…
