Category Archives: Web Design

Should Good Design be Unobtrusive?

By Richard | Published: December 2, 2009
The short answer is probably yes, good design should be unobtrusive. The longer answer is that it depends on a number of things. New ideas or significant variations on existing ideas tend to be fairly obtrusive as they are unfamiliar and make us stop and think. Examples My favourite example of this in the world of web [...]
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Design by Community

By Richard | Published: November 20, 2009
Design by Committee One of the often quoted rules of web design is that design by committee is a really bad idea. There are always a number of people involved in decisions around web design but problems arise when that number is more than a few. Projects stagnate through indecision, or web sites turn out to [...]
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