Usability Shmusability
Posted by Sam at 1:33 PM

Here is an article concerning the "The Top Ten Design Mistakes" that bloggers and blogs commit (interestingly enough, I've already committed two "Mistakes" in this very post... can you spot them?). While I don't agree with everything that the author is advocating, he does bring up some valuable topics to at least consider... and then dismiss as antiquated ideals from a pre-blog web existence.

Slightly off topic, but let's vent for a moment, shall we?

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Design standards. I loathe design standards and believe them to be a ridiculous thing to promote and enforce. Standards in design (not development) limit innovation and creativity, forcing a designer to stay within predefined boundaries. Granted, there is a time and a place for standards, but enforcing them during the design process is nothing less than an impediment on progress. A successful interface takes many shapes and forms. Imagine if the usability of the classic Mac OS (OS 9) was considered the end-all be-all for interface design... we would never have the slick, intuitive Mac OS X that exists today.

Standards are for those who are done thinking.
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Phew... That's all. And now, back to your regularly scheduled blog.

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Link descriptions and title issues...actually I barely made it through that article because it looked like poo.

Comment By TheDarkLordDerfla on October 19, 2005 8:43 PM