Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong - SXSWi 2009

Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Forget pages, linear text and other archaic vestiges of design's print ancestry; the separation of content from presentation has already changed everything.

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[MrBrotato]

Wow, this guy talks a lot but doesn't really say anything.

[islandplanet]

But what most users want from most websites is content. Linear text presented on pages like they're used to in books. Web designers may wish that they wanted non-linear, non-text content, but they don't (yet). At my victoria web design shop, I always stress the design alongside usablility and content, and always update the site as analytics tells me how the user is using the site.

[serviwebserviweb]

Good video, is very well explained

[dsavaq]

Design does resolve problems BUT with a good IDEAS + STRATEGY + DIRECTION...if you own a company PLEASE start with a nice CONCEPT, BRAINSTORMING with your copywriters, marketers and designers....but please DON'T start with DESIGNERS!!! A global message for clients around the world who believe that a designer is a mere too to execute their ugly ideas.

[keenefreelibrary]

Unless it's another Dan Willis talking about web design and user experience, his site is full of pages that contain pdf files structured by pages and linear text.

It's not a terrible design, but it's not the site of someone who has forgotten "pages, linear text and other archaic vestiges of design's print ancestry" just yet.

Sometimes "the old way" is better for some reason, sometimes not. Those who do not learn from the history of design are destined to repeat it. New builds on old, mostly.

[HOMEnHIGH]

@Jsworld1980 ...wouldnt that be a different clip, i think a clip is in itself is considered a single entity therefore the "rest of this clip" is a contradiction in terms suggestive that there is more to this clip, there is no more to this clip but there is another clip that continues from this clip which is another section of the whole seminar before it was fragmented into single clips considered in there entirety as whole..

[Dotcommunism1]

If you want to see some SERIOUSLY wicked web design stuff,||Wanna see some seriously cool web design stuff?} go to ww w . interkiwi webdevelopers . co m. Some pretty good stuff site}.

[lusoned]

@MrBrotato I agree. Vague and unclear.

[ecksoe]

the sound is terrible

[websitedesigningplus]

Great Video, and some of the points being made are points I have been trying to get across to my clients.