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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: January 08, 2003 Prognostication Digitalis (Boxes and Arrows) -- "What will this year hold for the profession known as “what we do” and its children, information architecture, usability, interaction design, interface design, and graphic design? What will it hold for our favored media, the digital world? Boxes and Arrows asked our authors to hazard a guess. Here's what they came up with."
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Before going on to read that article I'm guessing that theres going to be an increased awareness of the field along with web standards. Posted by: Blaine on January 8, 2003 09:18 PM
I predict the establishment of inexpensive easy-to-set-up database-driven template-based web sites, sending droves of web monkeys to the unemployment line. When a company needs a "web designer" it will hire an outside agency to develop 2-5 pages that fit the template system. One jack-of-all-trades will remain on staff to occasionally address coding, Photoshop and other issues. OK, so that won't happen this year, but eventually. Designers "in it" for the creativity are an endangered species. Design is window dressing, or garnish on the dinner plate. Programmers hold the real power in the second era of the Internet.
I predict that in 2033 a movie will be made in which the main character travels back in time 30 years to 2003. Upon his arrival there will be a brief moment of levity as the audience spies in the scene's background the visage of Bill Gates speaking on a 2-D CRT television about the wondrous advancements that will be made in the realm of smart refrigerator magnets. The audience will laugh at The Boob Gates (that's his nickname in the future). Posted by: Chortle the Turtle on January 9, 2003 05:35 PM
Karmak: I'm not sure how in-the-future-there-will-be-no-programming leads to a need for _programmers_ and not designers. :) Posted by: JEH on January 9, 2003 08:43 PM
"Designers "in it" for the creativity are an endangered species. Design is window dressing, or garnish on the dinner plate." Thanks, Karnak. Now I'm depressed. :) Posted by: John Bedard on January 10, 2003 04:58 PM
JEH, I didn't say there would be no programming in the future. To the contrary, programming will run most things, and so programmers will be in high demand to keep web services running. Someone who only codes pages and makes graphics will be, or perhaps already is, a web monkey. Re-read please. Posted by: Karnak the Great on January 10, 2003 05:01 PM
Enjoyed Scott Berkun's prediction. "impact of work" and proven "improvements" in terms of ROI. Posted by: Daniel Szuc on January 11, 2003 08:09 AM
Another thought is how usability can impact the total customer environment beyind web sites. One of our current clients is a franchise in Asia who are looking at ways to improve their "total customer / brand experience" from their shop fronts, operations, web site, products (menus etc) etc Some of the usability methodologies can extend beyond "interfaces" and into the physical (knowing that usability is already applied to physical products) Basic meaning here is getting people to think that usability is beyond web interfaces and extends to other interesting areas :) Posted by: daniel szuc on January 13, 2003 03:19 AM
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