Application vs. content or It’s. A. Motherf*cking. Nursery!
My mother gets furious when I ask her how things are in the kindergarten. It’s. A. Motherfucking. Nursery! she screams. (Of course that is not true. She doesn’t say “motherfucking”, though it would demonstrate a respectable grain of self-irony). However, I’m sure people are being sarcastic when they state exactly that at our friday afternoon meetings.
The same confusion goes for websites. There are application websites, exploration websites, information websites and p*rn websites, architects, designers, copywriters and developers and people like me stating the obvious on a brown website.
This article could be also be titled “Things I Wish I’d Known Before Designing My Latest Web-Based Application.†You see, I had experience designing Web sites. I’d mastered the art of creating catchy content. I worked with Web-savvy graphic artists who provided masterful images. I knew the latest HTML coding tricks and could design around the various browser quirks and incompatibilities. Armed with these skills and experiences, I volunteered to design the user interface for one of my company’s Web-based applications—and dove right in.
Digital Web Magazine: User Interface Design for Web Applications
Bonus confusion
- Yeah, but you keep a diary.
- It’s a journal!
Cheers (1982-1993)
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