#web

I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little. ↗

— John Howe

#become #complete #fairly #i #interesting

I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to. ↗

— Jennifer Wyatt

#better job #doing #filled #i #i think

Like delicate lace, So the threads intertwine, Oh, gossamer web Of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace Wild nature produces... Ughh, look at the spider Suck out that bug's juices! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#poetry #spiders #spiderweb #beauty

I’m only saying what you won’t. He’s a hunk, admit it. A tall, dark, exotic hunk who wants to bed you, and you must be a fucking nun, because it’s been three weeks since you met him and you’re going to have to remove the cobwebs from your vagina with forceps soon, they’re growing into intelligent life form— ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#cobwebs #dating #humor #humour #relationships

Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues. ↗

— Steve Krug

#designers #usability #web-design #design

Great. Darcy is the ruler of our school. Prety soon, Julius is going to be like Singapore - you'll get a $500 fine for chewing gum or making out in the hallways. ↗

— Flynn Meaney

#making-out #singapore-website-design #teenage-love #ya #design

In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing. ↗

— Steve Krug

#psychology #usability #web-design #design

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work. ↗

— Steve Krug

#usability #web-design #design

Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The strangeness is being leached away by the mush-making process. Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990S had the flavor of personhood. MySpace preserved some of that flavor, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities, while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People will accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other form. It is utterly strange to hear my many old friends in the world of digital culture claim to be the true sons of the Renaissance without realizing that using computers to reduce individual expression is a primitive, retrograde activity, no matter how sophisticated your tools are. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#facebook #internet #myspace #technology #web

「グローバルウェブ」を牽引する第二要素は、欧米に相変わらず根強くある、世界全体への関与の意志です。グーグル中国問題のところでも述べた、ヨーロッパ近代以来のイデオロギーやアメリカ建国以来の思想を体現し、民主主義や資本主義といった自らが信奉する価値観を世界中に普及させようという情熱です。 また、欧米エスタブリッシュメント層の中には、持てる者が持たざる者に手を差し伸べるべきという考え方や「ノーブレス・オブリージ」的な規範で行動する文化も根付いていますが、そういうことがウェブ進化と融合し、本書のテーマであるオープンエデュケーションというムーブメントにも結びついています。[43ページ] ↗

— 梅田望夫

#open-education #education