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The end of web design?

I was surfing and saw this comment on Digital Web. And I strongly disagree. Data is the future. XML is data in it’s purest form.

So home pages will die? No they won’t. Neither will blogs. Maybe people prefer to read the XML-based feeds, but the site could still be pure XML with some XSLT. Nothing wrong with that, pure content and you still keep the flexibility of a home page (that is, with some static and unmanaged content as everybody has). It’s ridiculous to think (at this time, maybe in 5 years all will be different) that content will eventually kill design. I don’t think that design shall be adapted to content more than it’s already being done too. It’s just no point. Content is of course what people want to see, but believe me, design is attested.

I have nothing against Richard MacManus and his opinion. I just think design can’t be killed in favour of content. Design still can be a crutch. Hell, you’d put 95% of all web dev companies out of work! ;)

Posted on 2004-11-14 while eating dinner, I guess!

iPod vs. Sony Network Walkman

This is the first of hopefully a series of comparisons between interface design, graphic design, industrial design and typography. This time, I will compare the interfaces when playing of the Apple iPod and the Sony Network Walkman.

Continue reading this post.

Posted on 2004-10-31 while enjoying evening coffee.

Battle of the designers!

Like a battle of the sexes, but then between two designers from both sexes. Jina and I are pondering over some sort of designologue, but since we are both uninspirational sods, we’d like some suggestions. So leave your ideas at Jina’s site or in my comments, and in a week or two, we will be choosing the theme.

Jina has the whole set of rules on her post, so read that and decide.

Important note: please post your suggestions etc. at her post.

Hrrmm, my post isn’t as lengthy as hers. But mine has a spiffy graphic! Pah!

And looking it over and over, Jina believes this will be a friendly challenge. Who am I to ignore the words of that woman? Exactly. It’s a friendly challenge.

Posted on 2004-10-28 while eating dinner, I guess!