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Essay :: Looking Back — Looking Ahead
An Open Letter to the Design Community By Thomas Van Hare, Chairman, IPPA / Digital Minute – It doesn’t seem like all that long ago, really. This web thing started with such promise. For most of us, the revolution began on a tiny little desk, more often than not it was in a cubicle at ...
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Essay :: Five Ways to Improve a Site
By Thomas Van Hare – At Digital Minute, we make it a practice to review hundreds of site designs from around the world. This provides an excellent opportunity to follow emerging design trends, new techniques, and the overall direction of design online. As a result, we recognize common errors that plague the work of designers, ...
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Essay :: Navigation Design
By Thomas Van Hare – Navigation and design go hand in hand. From reviewing thousands of sites submitted to the IPPA, we have come to classify navigation into two predominant categories, what we call passive and managed, directed navigation. Further, we have come to recognize a basic flaw in the online design community — a ...
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Essay :: Another Take on Color Selection
By Thomas Van Hare – For the past four years, quite a lot has been written about the 216 color “Netscape Color Cube” and the limitations it entails. Sadly, not only are most web surfers now viewing in at least 16-bit color, but this is about as far as most Internet designers delve into color ...
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Essay :: On Design for the Net
On Design for the Net By Thomas Van Hare – multimediocrity – a term coined and created by Thomas Van Hare at the IPPA to describe the current abysmal state of design on the Internet. Surfing the Internet can be a troubling experience. As a professional designer, I am continually struck with the poor quality ...