| Aldon Hynes on 9 Jan 2001 17:25:00 -0000 |
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| Re: <nettime> Disassociate Webdesign from Usability |
You know, I've been reading this list for a while and been mostly bored. You know. A bunch of people throwing their words into the ether without any real connection seeming to take place. Sort of like, what if they held an online art museum and nobody clicked... Oh there have been a few exceptions. The discussions about GWB have been interesting as well as the nanomedicine stuff and the thing about drugs.... But here was a message that caught my attention. A little while ago, everyone was complaining about the flash page for sfmoma's 010101... Meanwhile everyone is complaining about dull interfaces. Maybe I'm unsophisticated, but I kinda like text. That is one of the reasons most of the stuff I do online is text. It is easy. Anyone can do text, anyone can understand text, and it provides a great opportunity to improvizationally interact. Kinda like doing black and white prints while everyone else is doing color film... What was the book you were reading? Aldon --- [email protected] wrote: > > > So, at the moment, we are confronted with the sad > choice between innovative > > sites with a dull interface and nice-looking sites > with a conservative > > information structure... > > Yeah. I read this book the other day. It was a great > book, but the > layout was so *damn* dull. Just a bunch of words on > a page. Such a > shame. Totally ruined the whole thing. Hello? > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]