by julius | Sep 29, 2023 | Thoughts
Advocates not parrots By giving people the right content they can move from clicking a button or signing a petition to taking on a more active role: adapting, creating and sharing, and talking to others. As a wise friend put it, “You can have a great campaign, but if...
by julius | Sep 29, 2023 | Thoughts
The depleted bookshop Why meeting existing user needs is inadequate for inspiring, moving or entertaining. A good bookshop is full of books that inform but also books that entertain, move, or frighten. They make you laugh, they make you cry, they make you see the...
by julius | Sep 29, 2023 | Thoughts
The speeding up of slowing down There’s a widespread assumption that speed is always important. But there’s a whole world of content where efficient information transfer isn’t the end goal. As Jeffrey Zeldman says, for lots of the web, speed is vital. When...
by julius | Sep 26, 2023 | Thoughts
Atomic content Why content chunks are better than pages Atomic design changed the way people thought about web design. Brad Frost and others made people see that designing smaller, reusable components made more sense than starting with whole-page layouts....
