Nolan Lawson"Why are websites embarrassing?" by Robin Rendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/why-are-websites-embarrassing/
Yeah, this one hits me in the feels.
Ward Cunningham@nolan
“Why are websites embarrassing?”
Robin should catch up with Bruce Sterling for the answer to this one.
“Why are websites embarrassing?”
Robin should catch up with Bruce Sterling for the answer to this one.
Dusty Pomerleau@nolan One of the reasons the bar for books is higher is that publishing a book requires money and resources. Publishing a website can be done at nearly zero cost, as a solo project. There is a lot of effort being expended to prevent web publishing from becoming like book publishing, where indie projects are onerous, rare, and hard to promote. Of course we all want the web to be better, but this is the wrong analogy.
moopet@nolan I guess it's partly like that oatmeal about the toasters.
This article took me a minute to digest though, because I don't see a lot of that stuff, and I make websites for a living. I realised it's because I so heavily curate my experience with content-blockers and plugins and so on, and only tend to visit the same handful of sites these days that I forget what it's like.
I get bogged down in arguments about making the form I'm workin g on accessible and don't look at the big picture.
Tormod HalvorsenLooking at it from the PoV of semi-large companies, the site is ”everybody’s responsibility” and often lack clear ownership. Every department will have their demands and unless the web team is empowered to set direction and say "no”, this is where we end up.
There also seem to be a total lack of insight that our public facing website shouldn't be as annoying and pushy as a desperate time-share salesrep.
Does the web experience fit our brand, and how we’d like to be seen?
skryking@nolan I dislike his website because it only uses a small percentage of my screen width for the text of the article...therefore taking too much scrolling.
Rob Palmer@nolan >I try to imagine what kind of grueling process the team went through to make something so quiet and simple
When joy and simplicity strike, I usually find it's due to the results of one person that cares.
It's hard to guarantee that same outcome via process.