Dovetailing nicely with my appeal for some new cliches, Elliot Jay Stocks of Carsonified recently did a talk called “Destroy The Web 2.0 Look.”
Thank you, Mr. Stocks! Excellent presentation. That presentation is suitable for a ChangeThis manifesto, if you ask me.
Personally, I think some of the elements of typical “web 2.0″ design wouldn’t be that bad… if they were not slavishly applied to Every Single New Web Site/Application/doohickey that we see fly off the shelf. But since they are, I think a backlash is long overdue. Vive la revolution! Let’s not reflect a logo, for a change.
Of course, this means that people will need designers to actually design again, rather than just going through all the “2.0″-ish Photoshop tutorials they found on Smashing Magazine or Mashable. Good!
The slide show:
Dangit! And I thought I had just taught myself how to design Web 2.0…
Back to the drawing board! ;-)
goofy site - and doesn’t work in IE
You’re right; I probably wouldn’t have known that for months, thanks. :)