You Can't Miss...Designing Futures

The more I've been exposed to new ways of designing I have begun to wonder what's coming next. Growing up laptops were new and iPods were nonexistent. This week on Smashing Magazine I read a post on the future of web design. They discuss how Google would equivalently taken 30 days to send a response if it had existed 100 years ago.


"Services such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are becoming the hub for our online life, and we are blending them to create our own unique Web of content: Facebook for our social life, LinkedIn for our professional life, Spotify for music, Netflix for television and film."

"The key rules to bear in mind when working through a design for the portable Web:

1. The website should be available to as wide an audience as possible;
2. The website should contain the same content wherever it is viewed, where feasible;
3. The website’s structure should be the same wherever it is viewed;
4. The content should be displayed in a manner that is appropriate to its environment.

A website that meets all of these criteria would fit snugly in the future portable Web."