Web design is comparative — since you’re one click away from the competition, comparison between your design and theirs is easy — and people do it, whether consciously or not. So what the competition is doing should matter to you. But just as important is what’s happening with Amazon, CNN, Yahoo and Google.
For a long [...]

I’m just finishing up Web work on a symposium that illustrates all that’s wrong with unplanned development: the people in charge kept coming up with new ideas after we’d started, and they kinda liked waiting until work was done on something before starting to think about it. So I (and others) would work to on [...]

I’ve been thinking about the next wave in Web design a lot lately, and this morning it hit me: it’s the blogs.
Most blogs stand as silos — either unique by themselves or within a larger site but not really integrated into that site (beyond, possibly, standard headers and footers — see the LLS Tax Policy [...]