Design News & Articles

What sort of state is your desk in right now? Clutter on your website, just as in your environment, can have a negative effect on your visitors’ state of mind. Kyle Mueller takes a look at some of the common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Between choosing the most semantic markup, wrangling IE6 CSS bugs, and arguing which JavaScript library would win in a fight, it is easy to forget that the future of web design rests in the hands of a small group of people—those with responsibility for educating the next generation. Columnist Tom Green reports on the sad state of post-secondary education, and what it might mean for the future of effective web development.

Maybe you’ve approached a website design with the burning desire to do something that’s altogether different. Perhaps you’ve attempted to build a site, CMS, or hot new app that meets management’s vague goals to somehow turn our current thinking upside-down. Or, could be you’ve considered a new IA project and thought, “there must be a new way to approach this.” If so, then you’ve wrangled with the concept of innovation. Few understand innovation—its challenges, and how to harness our abilities to pull it off successfully—as well as Scott Berkun, author of the respected Art of Project Management, does. His new book, The Myths of Innovation, attempts to take a fresh look at the subject. Did he succeed? Read Digital Web staffer Tiff Fehr’s review to find out.

Innovation is both a buzz word and an elusive goal these days for many companies and web professionals. After writing her review of Scott Berkun’s new book The Myths of Innovation, DW staff member Tiff Fehr decided to dig a little deeper by asking him these five pertinent questions.

The Web we know and grow is in the throes of a renaissance—evidence of Web 2.0 is everywhere. In their first installment of Web 2.0 Design: Bootstrapping the Social Web column, Richard MacManus and Joshua Porter present six important trends that characterize the future of the Web for designers.

After eight years of success, the editors of Digital Web Magazine discuss the past, present, and future of the web magazine.