SOME RANDOM DUDE

A little over a year ago, I wrote on the short-sightedness of the visual style which had been named after the technology it had been associated with - Web 2.0. As predicted, the masses have begun to tire of the current trend. Additionally, designers are beginning to write about their dissatisfaction towards the Web 2.0 visual trend and are proposing alternatives to it. As the visual style attributed Web 2.0 wains, we are inevitably going to see the rise of another all but arbitrary visual style take its place which will be adopted by the design masses without a second thought.
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This week’s links is going to be short and sweet. Unfortunately, the upcoming days are going to take everything I have, so I think it wise not to spend much time blogging. Enjoy the links, I promise there will be many more next week.

I will have quite a bit to talk about in the next couple weeks. As some of you may have heard earlier, I have been working on a rather large project for the last few months which is in its final stages. I will make sure to dish out as many details as I can when the time is appropriate.

Until then, enjoy the links.
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It has been another amazingly long week and I have slightly fallen behind in my blogging this week. Nonetheless, through all the craziness, here are this week’s links. Things should begin to start slowing down this week or next which will allow me to spend more time doing some actual writing. Until then, get busy clicking with this batch of linkage.
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Have you seen that site with the pretty gradients and the rounded corners with cute drop-shadows? You know, that one that looks all slick and shiny? I bet you have. The problem is, all of us are thinking of a different one. Why? Because there are, oh, about a million of them out there. I have no doubt that there will be a few of you out there that will like me even less after this article. I have pretty much accepted that.

The internet is in a bit of a design rut. We have fallen in love with a particular visual style and we just will not let it go. Everywhere you turn there is a gradient. Drop-shadows are surrounding us. We are pinned down by rounded corners. This, my friends (and soon-to-be enemies), is a perfect example of how trends can show their ugly side. I am writing this article to ask if we are interested in designing websites or just decorating them. If we are in fact interested in the former, perhaps we should think twice about we are doing.
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