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The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design - 6 days ago
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... Topics: Creativity, Design, Web

Personal publishing via web services - 80 days ago
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... Topics: cms, denna jones, Design, jon tan, Sightings, Web, web 2.0

Web logo design 3.0 - 89 days ago
Remember the Swoosh logos of Web 1.0? And the shiny-drop-shadow-reflection-gradient-badge-icon shit we’re still digesting today? Well, get ready for Network Graph logos for Web 3.0. At least, that’s my prediction.Assuming that Web 3.0... Topics: Creativity, Design, graph, logo, network, Sightings, tripit, twine, Web

Web Guidelines at Zinformatie - 123 days ago
I’ll be speaking tomorrow in Utrecht, Netherlands on truths and myths regarding the Dutch Web Guidelines. I’d like to speak more about design in front-end development, but I guess the Web Guidelines are hot, and since I had a role in... Topics: accessibility, Events, front-end development, web guidelines, webrichtlijnen, zinformatie

Create attractive (site) diagrams with Graphviz - 159 days ago
Though powerful, AT&T Research’s open source graph visualization tool suite might lean too heavily into geek territory to have captured the interest of the visually-inclined OmniGraffle-ish crowd. Nevertheless, Graphviz and the surprisingly... Topics: Design, Web






