Home >  Archive >  2012 >  February >  19

Previous / Next

Use the web
By Dave Winer on Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 10:09 AM.
As you may know, I push links through my linkblog feed and through Twitter. Please subscribe to one or both.  permalink
Sometimes I push a link that gets retweeted a lot. I appreciate that in the New Twitter UI it's easy to see who retweets. And as I result I can see which ones are heavily retweeted.  permalink
I pushed a link to an article that said that designers are ruining the web. I don't agree, but I thought it was well-written and thoughtful, and made a point that could use a fresh look.  permalink
What I think is true -- bad design makes the web ugly, slow and hard to use. How bad design comes about is uncertain, but it's not always designers that are responsible. It could just as easily be bad clients or bosses. Or programmers who don't work well with their designers. Etc. permalink
A bunch of responses in tweets say it's not true, but, in 140 chars all you can do is grunt or snort. Nothing other than a primal scream or two. No! Not true! Arrrgh! permalink
I said people should write a blog post stating the other side. And one did. Well thought-out, reasonable, respectful. So I pushed a link back out the same way the other one went.  permalink
The web works, badly designed or not! :-) permalink
This site contributes to the scripting.com community river.


© Copyright 1997-2012 Dave Winer. Last update: Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 9:31 PM Eastern. Last build: 2/29/2012; 5:42:38 PM. "It's even worse than it appears."

RSS feed for Scripting News

Previous / Next