Designing for Web 2.0
Mark Boulton offers his opinion on what design means in terms of Web 2.0. Turning the corner: Designing for Web 2.0 he suggests that design will be much more than simply aesthetics. Good design will incorporate user experience, usability, information architecture, accessibility and of course aesthetics.
I can’t believe he was able to resist calling his article “Turning the (Rounded) Corner: Designing for Web 2.0″
I recently came across a great article by Andrew Blau of Global Business Network. In it he describes a new generation of media makers and viewers that is emerging globally, which only increases the likelihood of profound change in the world of media. He says, “Images, ideas, news, and points of view are traveling along countless new routes to an ever-growing number of places where they can be seen and absorbed. It is no understatement to say that the way we make and experience motion media will be transformed as thoroughly in the next decade as the world of print was reshaped in the last.”
These may be loaded statements, but I do believe that technology and the global marketplace are the main beneficiaries of this drastic change. Consumers are now creators and their stage is global. I no longer even need to own a television. Can the old methods of media keep up?