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- adjustafresh, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34web 2.0...
- timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Yeah, how very Web 1.0 of us!
- iomegaboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17As a professional graphic artist, I am still puzzled by how these trends start and how they accepted as the new standard.
- Dobriak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18in a true web 2.0 spirit.. everybody thinks its cool but nobody has any opinion on it
- TheSaladMan, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
- smhill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think the big biggest trend in "Web2.0" is constant, repetitive nature of "content".
Everybody has a blog and and seems compelled to talk about web 2.0 and blogging. What it is, how to get traffic, how to generate content etc. Yet there is very little truly original content. This article is a great example. Mindless drivel that has been said a thousand times before. We went from little content on the web to overloaded repetition.
And much of it is kind of ignorant. Rounded corners are great example. Not really a "trend". Web content often contains blocks of content. Rounded corners soften things. You have seen this in print for years. It has been on the web years. It is not a trend, it is an option. Faster connections, sophisticated browsers and more attention to design have lead to things of this nature.
Granted, the color choices are more of a trend, and certain effects like mirrored images and badges are as well. Though badges have been around for along time as well. Look at a newspaper.
Though I agree that with fetusface, typography is going to make a strong showing soon. But I wouldn't expect rounded corners or large fonts to go away. They are more of an evolution than trend.
I am hoping the next "trend" is original content, not just commentary and simply recycling the same crap over and over. I gets really annoying doing a search on google for a topic an the first 50 results are god damn blogs pointing to some other article which may or may not be the source. - gerbilthemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Web 3.0 should look like Teletext...
- Anteros, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"from a designers perspective i can tell you that we are not buying in to this look"
So you are saying people who design web 2.0 sites are not designers? - Fab1anFab1an, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13Web 2.0 is refreshless browsing, end of story.
- smhill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"So you are saying people who design web 2.0 sites are not designers?"
I agree, much of the visual appearance of the web today is because real designers are being used. Whether or not you like the current trend of look, it is a vast improvement over what came before.
And as any traditional designer will tell you, trends have existed forever (look at art history). Choices are made to get a certain result (look up the word design). You don't design a site to be 100% original (impossible), you design it evoke a certain result. Familiarity, comfort, easy of use, etc... - somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Web 2.0 is a marketing term- not a technical one.
- timmyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I find it funny that they mention Shoutwire, but not Digg.
- scottschiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For a rather humorous take (ie., mockery) of the web 2.0 trend in design, check this video from Barcamp Boston, June 2006: "Ingredients for web 2.0 success"
http://notabug.com/w2/
Tips range from taking out the "E" in your verb-based domain name ending in "er" to using text-spacing:-1px for fonts, technology slogans like "Powered by AJAXMLCSSQL," recommendations for launch parties and buzzword bingo.
One of my favourite lines: "Seriously, Yahoo! will buy anything!" ;) - phpfreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Okay, the whole web 2.0 fad is nice, but along with anything that comes in as a trend, it's going to go out like one too. It's like using animated GIFs... they're somewhat cool in small doses, if you do it right. This design scheme does look pretty slick, but with anything that is overdone, it can loose its zing quickly. As a professional web developer, I think we should all just design things that are unique, and not follow rules set fourth by a few bloggers.
- iomegaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You have to remember that most designers work for clients who are really who give the final approval on what the site looks like. As a designer you can try to educate, but at the end of the day it's just a paycheck. "Hey I've seen all these cool websites, I want mine to look like that."
- raindogmx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Web 2.0 graphic design is way too uniform for my liking. I can recognize it's usefulness though but it's still as uniform as communist propaganda and I like that better. Just a personal opinion.
- Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Web 2.0 is a marketing term which encompasses a disparate set of unrelated technical and design issue and which is useful for wooing VC money. Nothing more.
- lunchbox170, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There are two aspects of web 2.0
1. the technical side, which all of the AJAX stuff and user interaction, and web apps.
2. The design aspect which is what this articles is about. - bakagaigin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Shoutwire has sexy reflexions, so I'm bought! :P
- jo42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tired --> Web 2.0
Wired --> Web 3.0
PS. It's all BS until the next fad hits... - dunkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13. community - which isn't technical, it's social (a la MySpace, Digg)
4. Open data - the concept of using data on other sites (Flikr, YouTube)
It is a mistake to this that Web 2.0 is just a design style. Styles change and this time next year it will be old. DesignFad 2.0
To me the design should and could be more about cleaning it up, making it easier to use, making it interesting -- not the actual techniques (gradients, colours, shapes)
AJAX && design && community && data sharing == Web 2.0 - dunkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As much as I dislike the hype behind web 2.0 and AJAX they are useful terms. They wrap up a bunch of technologies into a simple phrase. But yes, too much BS.
Web 2.0 isn't just about design though. It's also about user generated content, a sense of community and an openness of information. I'm sick of the whole rounded corners, gradients == web 2.0 bollocks - mrRB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why should we care if our page looks like another? Form follows function. We need to make sure the site is usable first before trying to be all distinctive and stuff. Immediately after that, I try and make it look pretty. If a given pretty thing impedes usability, it's gone. If the site looks like a lot of Web 2 sites out there, fine by me. As long as it works.
Do you not like Avril Lavigne because she's fake punk without listening to any of her songs? Do you like music that was popular before you were born but not today's popular music because it's all the same corporate crap? Are you some sort of e-hipster? - Vindstille, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1According the person that "invented" the term Web2.0. Web2.0 is a term to describe trends that we have seen in webdesign the last years.
- visionunion, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Enjoy Chinese style icon design
http://digg.com/design/Enjoy_Zhang_Youlin_s_Realis ... - dunkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So we should design things that are the same for the sake of designing things that are the same. Got it.
- grtgreengoblin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i didn't look at it that way
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Look this site for web design http://www.design-sites.net design how are you?
- mrRB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1So we should design things that are different for the sake of designing things that are different. Got it.
- editopen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1web 2.0 is where the nerd becomes designer and designer becomes nerd - it's a revolution whether u ike it or not
- brooklynboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great - can't wait for the flat colors, silhouetted human poses, bland info bubbles and pretty green expander pluses.
Actually, these designs remind me of an old box of Ajax. eww.
http://www.tias.com/stores/tins/pictures/9115a.jpg - digguh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mov in http://notabug.com/w2/
= 44.4 MB - editopen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4What the hell is all this Web2.0=AJAX. Are u really that stupid? AJAX as a technology rose out of the concepts that spawned Web2.0 - that being a fresh way to look at data, and information on-line. We have gone from the days of mailing lists with that horrible un-styled blue anchor colour, that was just plain un- imaginative; into something imaginative and open.
Since when has something imaginative been a bad idea. It's good design that takes into account standards and accessibility, as well as colour for specific types of visitor.
Web2.0 is intriguing, that is a GOOD thing, it is the natural progression of web-design and web-usage, and it has freed the web from the BSD Berkley/MIT geeks and laced in freely in the hands of anyone who wants to hold it - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Web 2.0 is this http://www.internet2.edu/, not design. Although, like it or not, non-technical consumers find it easier to equate Web 2.0 to shiny buttons than they do to equate it to a sustained 10 Gbps connection.
The current graphics style of websites is just a graphics style, neat, clean and functional. Web 2.0 is technology and use related. - gregformager, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That Ajax box looks frekling awesome man. If you don't think so you are not a designer.
- gregformager, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok, I think if anyone of us knew even what a PNG (pormable netrwork graphics) was that we could be able to tel what internet 2.0 was only that we can't even know this design so how can we know what anything else is if this is whats the case.
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1No, it's not, if you study information technology Web 2.o is a group of new technologies that are attempting to change the way we utilise the web, not necessairly us but different companies and such.
Things like telepresence surgery are Web 2.0. I wish I remembered the site we went to in our seminar. Web 2.0 is innovation in our use of the web. - smackjack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Stop trying to LOOK web 2.0 and just BE web 2.0...
- lunchbox170, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I hate all of these people that are tired of web 2.0 it just a trend and a very good one at that. I really like the style of web 2.0, and I don't get tired of it. I like the very simple elegant sites that people are making.
web 2.0 for life...or at least until 3.0 then web 3.0 for life! - gregformager, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So we should design things that are the same for the sake of designing things that are different. Got it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0ugh nerds who think they have a right to talk about design.
Web 2.0 is horrible trash design wise - Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Geesus, a bunch of people figured out how to use Photoshop, PNGs and CSS properly, and its called a Web 2.0 revolution. "Look at me, I know how to put a drop shadow on an icon, or I use rounded corners using only CSS, I am a Web 2.0 website!".
Also, when it comes to "consistent" interface design, its because everyone writing a blog is using WordPress or Blogger, or MySpace, its like millions of people are thinking with one brain cell, or rather, using the same 4 rehashed templates.
Wake me up when its Web 3.0. - smorg, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4How to make websites which look just like countless other existing sites. Awesome.
A better idea might be to try to innovate and make your page stand out from the rest... - skidooer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Web 2.0 is the computer web, as in web services and things that are consumed by the computer.
AJAX requests web services, thus it falls under web 2.0. RSS is a web service so it too falls under the web 2.0 name. Fancy colours and large fonts are still, and will always be, in the web 1.0 category because we consume them, not the computer. - garreh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Yes, whatever you say, Mr willynilly.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5Im utterly sick of this *****. Yes we know what web 2.0 is, yes they are trends and no they wont be around for a long time. Why is it that every 2 months there is someone dickwaving the fact that he/she is aesthetically aware of design around the web? wow you can spot trends ....its really not that hard.
also from a designers perspective i can tell you that we are not buying in to this look at all. the next wave is minimalistic design and heavy typography coming from the uk. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6Anyone seriously posting anything that mentions "Web 2.0" is basically announcing to the world that he's an ignorant dolt.
- profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6I share your pain. I'd probably threaten more than screaming though.
- TigerWalk, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3that's not the first time it is featured here...try to search " web 2.0' at digg...
- profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Forgot to hit reply. Digg down please. :)
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