Alex around the World

Read Peter Merholz’s presentation on User-centric Web Design in an article published on FTPOnline..

More about Peter:

• http://www.peterme.com/
• http://www.adaptivepath.com/aboutus/peterme.php

Wonderful Sardinia!
I’ve just posted some pictures of our latest holidays in Sardinia. It’s a very nice spot to lay by the beach, by the pool or on a yacht

The full set is available on Flickr.

Hahaha! Love Scott Berkun’s post on weird acronyms for software development approaches!

And you thought development was as easy as finding a methodology and applying it?

… but do people know that?

I remember when I was building my first websites. I did everything from A to Z, from the graphic elements to the HTML coding. Usually, these sites had a very easy structure: one “home page”, one “contacts” page, one “about us” page and several content pages.

But web design has evolved and new disciplines are involved. A client used to hire a generalist, someone who would do everything, from design to implementation, including server configuration. Now, your needs are more important. In an ideal world, you would have a whole team of specialists designing your websites: User experience specialists, Interface designers, coders, IT/Server specialists, graphic designers, CSS experts, etc.

This will certainly require web developers to spend some time in explaining what they do, what their specialty is (e.g. “What does an Information Architect or an Interface Designer do, and more importantly, what does he NOT do?”).

Adaptive Path’s article shows that it will take time until the general public (and most important, the clients) understands what web design / web development is all about.

But we’re getting there…