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Posted by: Paul Boag On Friday, 18th June, 2010

215. Web Directions

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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