A Designer’s New Year’s Resolutions
Posted on December 27, 2007 by C Johnson
Culture | Leave a Comment
As yet another year yawns before us and we stare at the blank pages of 2008 wondering just what we’ll be adding to them in the months to come, we are reminded the ghosts of new years resolutions past and make it our resolve to, this year, really follow through. No, seriously. We really do mean it this time.
Honest.
So we’ve planted our tongue firmly in cheek and gathered a list of resolutions that might well resonate with our neighbors in the design community.
Bad Web Layout Conventions
Posted on December 11, 2007 by C Lin
Design, Tech | Leave a Comment
‘Design View,’ a blog by Andy Rutledge of Unit Interactive, offers up his opinions on poor web layout conventions which are still being implemented by some of the most frequented and notably well-designed sites on the internet such as Apple and Amazon. He dissects the common centered 3-column layout, an early popular convention used by such sites, pointing out the flaws in design and usability. Another typical convention many news sites make the mistake of doing is mimicking old-school newsprint layout. According to Rutledge, these sites fail to see that the difference between mediums (print vs. web) should be reason enough to change die-hard habits of design and layout. His points are well taken and it’s a surprise that even award winning sites Amazon and Apple are still hanger-ons—especially in this Web 2.0 day in age.
Check out his criticism and solutions to these design problems.
