man what On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Jeff Seager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Web design and print design share *some* characteristics, Matthew. I > also share some characteristics with a mountain gorilla, but I'm not > a mountain gorilla. In a similar way, the Web is an evolutionary > cousin of print and other media. Many fundamental design principles > do carry over to web design. Some don't. > > Among other things, I'm an accessibility advocate. The various > markup languages used in web design were meant from the start to > serve up content in accessible ways, and this idea of doing > handwritten design might be OK for very limited use -- maybe for a > site on the topic of excellent handwriting, or handwriting analysis. > To use it extensively would be a real headache if you did it as the > standards require. So a more polite way of saying "this is crap" > would be to say "I don't like headaches." > > The point where we may diverge is this: "If it works, it works." > What does that mean? If it's standards-compliant and semantically > structured AND attractive and functional, it works. Otherwise, it > just looks good. The thing that riles me about that statement is that > it carries this underlying assumption: If it works for ME, it will > work for EVERYONE. And that's not true. > > On one level, design is design. All disciplines share certain > principles of good design. But you don't design a 20-story building > with the exact same engineering principles used in designing a kite, > even though the two can have significant aesthetic similarities. A > highway engineer doesn't design a complex interchange to LOOK good > first, without regard to function, and I think the Smashing Magazine > article encourages just that kind of thinking. > > Web design isn't just what we see and experience on the browser du > jour. There's a bunch of important stuff under the hood. My personal > feelings of aesthetic like or dislike aside, I don't call a design > "good" unless it also satisfies the basic rules of structure and > accessibility. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29152 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help >
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