Why are websites embarrassing?
robinrendle.com
Why are websites embarrassing?
My favorite aspect of websites is their duality: they’re both subject and object at once. In other words, a website creator becomes both author and architect simultaneously. There are endless possibilities as to what a website could be. What kind of room is a website? Or is a website more like a house? A boat? A cloud? A garden? A puddle? Whatever ... See more
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
An humane web. It’s with this mindset — of care, and nurturing — that we can begin to build a better web for humans and the planet. We all need to start factoring sustainability into the web products we build. That should go hand-in-hand with building a more humane web, one that views the people building it, and more importantly, the ones using it,
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Laurel Schwulstthecreativeindependent.com
All this is to say is that for design, as for other fields, the road to greatness is often paved with obsession—an immoderate, unjustifiable surplus of care. Doing things that no-one asked for with a love that no-one could reasonably expect.
Ben Strak • Nobody asked for this
If you and I were to design a chair together, we’d have to consider some factors from the get-go. Of course, we’d consider the seat’s size, the height from the ground, the angle of the back, the materials, and the fabric. Before we made any of those decisions, we’d ask ourselves about the chair’s goals. Who would be using the chair? What would they
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