Tag: interactive
South by Sunday: High Class vs. Low Class Web Design
posted: 03.18.2007 11:16 AM tags: austin, design, interactive, sxsw, texas, web
While it may not have been the most instructional, or even the most entertaining, the most thought-provoking panel I attended all weekend at SXSW was Chris Fahey’s HIgh Class and Low Class Web Design. On paper alone, I found the subject matter fascinating. In a world where everything around us is designed, we make judgments on quality. There’s “good design” and “bad design.” Maybe it’s not really that, but a case of designing for different tastes, classes, markets. What are we to make of all this? And can we apply what we’ve learned to things beyond web design?
South By Sunday
posted: 03.12.2007 6:48 AM tags: austin, design, interactive, sxsw, tech, texas
Sunday at SXSW ’07 was an eventful one for a number of reasons: a good mix of panels, the Web Awards, Selection Sunday games & bracketology, and some nasty, nasty weather. Here’s my report.
South By Saturday
posted: 03.10.2007 5:50 PM tags: austin, design, interactive, sxsw, tech, texas
I just finished the first of many more long days at my inaugural visit to Austin & SXSW Interactive. I saw lots of interactive design celebrities, some great panels, some not-so-great panels and tons of stuff in between. Here’s my report.
The New Yahoo Sports
posted: 02.04.2007 7:59 AM tags: branding, design, interactive, yahoo
Yahoo’s been working on a site-wide redesign for quite a while now. It began with the new Yahoo! home page and has slowly migrated from there. On the heels of the Fantasy Sports rebrand last fall, the Sports pages were refreshed a few days ago with a completely new look.
Interactive Annuals Awfully Static
posted: 09.29.2006 1:17 PM tags: design, interactive
Kevin Temura over at Blue Flavor commented the other day that the recent Communication Arts Interactive Annual misses the mark and I couldn’t agree more. The recent Print Interactive Annual does the same thing. I love a fancy, Flashy website as much as the next guy, and they do deserve accolades.
Yet there’s something missing, and it happens every year. If we’re going to credit great website design, shouldn’t we look beyond the surface? Shouldn’t we consider things that make the web truly interactive, like navigation, content presentation, user interface and usability? What’s funny about all the interactive annuals is that I start to think they pick stuff that will look good in print.
I’d love to see things break out, either with categories or with just more attention paid to the content-rich, highly usable sites out there like Flickr, ESPN.com, The New York Times, The Onion, etc.