Posts Tagged ‘design’
New 9rules: Ali 2 and my re-commitment to 9rules
9rules today launched Ali 2. I’m going to post later on my thoughts on the design (so far being a thumbs up), but for now wanted to do shorter post in house blend about the launch. My thoughts? Yay and many other positive affirmations come to mind. I’m thrilled and enjoying the new features.
Doing what it says on the tin never gets you noticed
Praise and working paradox
It’s a bit of a paradox that things that work well we never notice in life. You’d think the things that ‘just worked’ would be hailed as wonderful and supreme, yet as human’s we have this nasty habit of ignoring the silent working. Think about the last time you weren’t complacent about something that worked all the time and noted that it was doing a great job? More often than not we are focused on the things that don’t work. The things that claim to do one thing on the tin and fail to live up to anything apart from much ranting.
Tabphobia
One of the most noticeable things about a lot of sites done in the after glow of the brand name web 2.0 is the virus of the tabs. If it’s navigation it seems nowadays if it’s not ‘tabbed’ it’s just not hip with the kids. However, just with any samey trend the reverse effect is reached of mind numbing clones. Somewhere along the hype and band wagon jumping tabs came to mean the same rounded gloss or not gloss (you get a choice in gloss at least) boredom.
Design roundup: 25th March
It’s Sunday it must be time for another design roundup……
Design roundup: 18th March
Like last week, I’m continuing my weekly design round up with quotes, 9rules design community round up and thoughts that came up this week. This week has been odd for me with the over riding muttering that not being able to get to any web conferences this year is making me each time one comes around. Like the past 2 years I’m vowing to get to one next year, you never know it may happen one year… Actually, the coverage that you get online is great and whilst it’s not like being there I don’t have to get jet lag. So, without more muttering here is my weekly round up.
Are you a design addict?
I posted a few of my thoughts going through my head the last week about design and this is one that I want to expand on – the notion of design being addictive. The point I was thinking about was:
