Reading assignment: Jeffrey Zeldman on why a lot of people, including designers, don't get web design.
We get better design when we understand our medium. Yet even at this late cultural hour, many people don’t understand web design. Among them can be found some of our most distinguished business and cultural leaders, including a few who possess a profound grasp of design—except as it relates to the web.Some who don’t understand web design nevertheless have the job of creating websites or supervising web designers and developers. Others who don’t understand web design are nevertheless professionally charged with evaluating it on behalf of the rest of us. Those who understand the least make the most noise. They are the ones leading charges, slamming doors, and throwing money—at all the wrong people and things.
Comments
Well, that's a nice whinge, and he defines web design (eventually), but it's hardly constructive, is it?
I dunno, maybe it's because I have the heart of a scientist not an artist, but crying "You Philistines just don't get it!" is a little. . . unnewsworthy.
Posted by: rpg | November 22, 2007 10:28 AM
Yes, you've got a point, it's not very constructive. Whinging, as I tell my son, will get you nowhere.
I guess sometimes it just feels good.
Posted by: Georg | November 22, 2007 01:06 PM