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Adobe.com redesigns and includes a nice little feature on Tomato.
I’ve always been impressed by Dennis Interactive, and they have not disappointed. They recently developed and rolled out a few sites with a Flash publishing system that allows site/content developers, even those without Flash installed on their computers, to change and post new content to a Flash-enabled Web site. The proof is in the pudding at two sites, Stuff Magazine and bThere, which both personally amaze me from personal experience developing and working with backend content publishing systems, especially involving Flash content.
Creative Tension: Some Web designers push the medium. Others scorn the flashy stuff. Darwin Magazine asked five leading designers where they stand in this budding religious war.
Just the Bits and Pieces from Noodlebox are more imaginative and interesting than most entire sites. (By the way, my current favorite thing on the web is the “flowers” piece on Daniel Brown’s page on noodlebox.)
The Designers Republic finally got their new website and work portfolio up. Yay!
Are Users Stupid? Opponents of the usability movement claim that it focuses on stupid users and that most users can easily overcome complexity. In reality, even smart users prefer pursuing their own goals to navigating idiosyncratic designs.
This may be old, but Creativebase and Adobe hav their little Adobe New Media Design Showcase, including a few projects and a call for entries.
Interesting technology idea #455B: eBayweaver. I don’t think eBay envisioned the future of pages people planned to put up in honor of their olden wares, as well as the gross misuse of the HTML-able comments field. Someone needs to create a Dreamweaver-esque tool that makes people’s pages not look like a revenge-of-the-GeoCities disaster. Find any random page and you’ll see what I mean.
Which design layout style (remember ad layout 101 from college?) do you think home shoppers respond to/like more? The simple categorized clean look of the Home Shopping Network, the clean, Mondrian, yet haphazard QVC, or the not-so-clean, half-assed Mondrian but more circus layout style of ValueVision?