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May 21, 2007
Art & Design. Web 2.0 Neglecting Good Design
Art & Design. Web 2.0 Neglecting Good Design: It's the common battle of form versus function. Web 2.0 sites are caught in the intersection of this balancing act. Although user-contributed sites lean heavily toward function, have they foresaken form?
As reported by BBC: "Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said. He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served. He said sites peppered with personalisation tools were in danger of resembling the "glossy but useless" sites at the height of the dotcom boom."
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Posted by taj at May 21, 2007 08:35 PM