A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 273

December 2, 2008

Both sides now: learn how traditional, research-based IA leads to better site design, and why many are abandoning traditional methods in favor of agile design.

Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA

by Keith LaFerriere

IA is about selling ideas effectively, designing with accuracy, and working with complex interactivity to guide different types of customers through website experiences. The more your client knows about IA's processes and deliverables, the likelier the project is to succeed.

Getting Real About Agile Design

by Cennydd Bowles

Agile development was made for tough economic times, but does not fit comfortably into the research-heavy, iteration-focused process designers trust to deliver user- and brand-based sites. How can we update our thinking and methods to take advantage of what agile offers?

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Editor’s Choice

originally ran: April 7, 2000

A Dao of Web Design

by John Allsopp

Web designers often bemoan the malleable nature of the web, which seems to defy our efforts at strict control over layout and typography. But maybe the problem is not the web. Maybe the problem is us. John Allsopp looks at web design through the prism of the Tao Te Ching, and decides that designers should let the web be the web.