Comments on: Making Popular Layout Decisions

By: Furiant

Furiant — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:27:21 +0000

Thanks for this post. At some point any serious designer will realize that their own sense of good, functional design is their best guide.

I think there will always be the camps of zealots who love the rules more than the ideas those rules are meant to promote. This is a good thing. Extreme apathy needs extreme opposition.

More than anything, I wish the Dark Side and the Light Side could get together and come up with the tools needed to make everyone happy. Technologies built on HTML and CSS are ultimately inadequate. We need more expressive languages for both semantic and cosmetic design. The ones we currently have are not getting better, they're just getting more complicated. We need lower-level interpretive code – get rid of the "browser".

In the meantime, we need the designers of alternate browsing agents to get their act together and make better products; meet us halfway – we care, but most of our work is not accessibility related because most of our visitors don't have accessibility issues. Apply this pressure to the companies who make your preferred agent; it will be easier than redesigning the entire web.

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By: sean potter

sean potter — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:24:46 +0000

i read every single of your post sometimes i read it over and over again ..you really inspired many people here..wish you a good luck in everything you do..

By: annktrembley

annktrembley — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:47:00 +0000

Past those, you have to draw on your fidelity 401k experience and professional judgment to pick a given design approach. You have to make a judgment call, one that will appear wrong to some fraction of your users. You have to accept this when you consider what kind of a site you’re creating and who its audience will be, carefully weigh the choices you have to make, and pick the ones that best serve the project’s needs. That involves knowing the circumstances in which your decisions will break down (e.g., a fixed-width design in a very wide browser window) as well as those in which they’ll work wonderfully.

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