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215. Web Directions

Posted in Podcast on: Friday, June 18, 2010 by Paul Boag

This week on Boagworld: Emerging trends at Web Direction @Media, playful web design and death to design by committee.

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Web Design News

This week: We look at emerging trends coming from Web Direction @Media including microcopy, HTML5 and CSS3 and inclusive design

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Playful design

While at Web Direction @Media I caught up with Aral Balkan and Christian Crumlish to discuss playful design and whether it is appropriate to add elements of playfulness and humour to any website.

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Death to design by committee

We all know that design by committee leads to horrendous design and yet committees happen anyway. In this post I ask why, layout the argument against them and look at ways to overcome the problem.

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Frozen Grape says:

21/06/2010 at 4:27 pm

This hasn’t appeared on iTunes yet…?

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Andy Kinsey says:

22/06/2010 at 4:33 pm

Not appeared yet :( – ive read your newsletter about no more shows before listening to this podcast… :( where will i get my weekly boag fix????

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Produced by Headscape

Boagworld is produced by the web design agency Headscape founded by Marcus, Paul and Chris Scott. Headscape also has a number of other talented guys who blog. Check them out.

Craig Rowe is one of our amazing developers and writes some superb posts on everything from .net to AIR apps.
Ed Merritt is a Headscape designer who's blog contains examples of his work and a number of free Wordpress themes.
Dave McDermid is a Headscape developer who has an excellent blog. He blogs on everything from AJAX to security.
Rob Borley is one of our project managers and blogs regularly on client and project management issues.
Leigh Howells is our multimedia design guru (whatever one of those is). He blogs on a mixture of design and music.

Paul elsewhere

Paul just can't shut up. He publishes regular audioboos, speaks regularly and is addicted to twitter. He also has a personal blog where he shares random thoughts, inspirational articles and stuff he thinks is cool. See the latest below: