Around six years’ ago we worked with a client who, as part of the project brief, asked for a website that would “still look great in 5 years”. No doubt there was an element of thriftiness in the request (and perhaps a degree of mischief), but fair play to them. It was a hell of [...]
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Machines of unknown intent
June 21, 2011
Posted by Rick Monro on June 21, 2011
http://blog.rickmonro.com/design/machines-of-unknown-intent/
A less precise art
June 6, 2011
There have been a number of natural ebbs and flows in the history of online UI design, times when designers may have felt that full control was coming back to us only to see it move away again. Shock of the new Moving to the web from print in the late nineties was like a [...]
Posted by Rick Monro on June 6, 2011
http://blog.rickmonro.com/design/a-less-precise-art/
Redefining the homepage
April 25, 2011
There was a time in the history of web design when the homepage would receive almost all of the designer’s attention. Naïve though it may sound now, it was as if the homepage was the site’s only chance to win over the user. After all, homepages won web design awards, homepages were featured on portfolios, [...]
Posted by Rick Monro on April 25, 2011
http://blog.rickmonro.com/design/redefining-the-homepage/