Turning the corner: Designing for Web 2.0

Have you found yourself being overwhelmed with all of the sudden changes in the world of web design. If you have, there is nothing to be concerned about. Besides, there is still the design future to consider anyway.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. What will it mean to design in this industry in the coming years, and how will we, as designers, have to adapt in order to get the most out of it?

But before I talk about that, I’d like to talk about design. What is it? More importantly what has it become? And how will it be in the future?
So, What is it? A brief history.

For many years now, design has been viewed as being aesthetic. Design equals How Something Looks. You see this attitude to design in every part of society - clothing design to interior design, less so in product design, and yes, in web design.

Years ago, when I was a lad…. No, seriously. Years ago, when the web first went mainstream we saw designers move to it from a number of industries - architecture, print design and multimedia (cd-rom and kiosk) design. They all brought with them a way of working which was almost exclusively associated with the aesthetic. Designing nice looking stuff for the web…. Source: markboulton.co.uk