Paul Rouke and PRWD on User Centered Design

Bringing together a fantastic panel of industry leading guests, including:

• Jakob Nielsen, Principal of Nielsen Norman Group
• Matt Mullenweg, Founder of Wordpress
• Todd Purgason, Creative Director of Juxt Interactive
• Nick Finck, Web Analyst and Information Architect for Digital Web
• Eric Jordan, President and Creative Director of 2advanced

…Scene360 have asked a series of questions and raised issues to see what the hype is about tools and technologies, where we are at present time, and where we may be in the future.

The full article, titled Web Special: Past, Present and Future… creating for the web is a very useful read which tackles questions such as:

• What are common accessibility or/and usability errors found on websites? Do you care about issues from W3C (w3.org)
• Flash technology is popular. Adobe confirmed it with buying Macromedia. We see web studios, Group94 and HiReS!, dedicating a big percentage of projects in Flash. Are Flash sites just a trend and overall useless? Or do you consider there is room for Flash as there is with CSS, and yes, there are well-constructed sites with usability?
• Name a site that you consider an exceptional example (Paul Rouke comment - in relation to Flash). Explain briefly why.
• There is a lot of talk about “Function vs. Form”, which most of the time is actually related to “Visual Design vs. Backend Programming”. This topic has been known to cause frustration and controversy among designers and developers. What is good, what is not?—conflicting opinions that not always contribute to improving the Web. What can we do to unite these professions of different personalities, yet working in the same industry, if not together?
• Blogs are a phenomenon. Almost everyone has one, and it is simple to set up through open-source software. Blogs have influenced the growing use of standardized structured sites. What is your view on this phenomenon?
• What technology trends do you think will be used in the future?
• Because we don’t like concluding an interview with just a typical question: “What the future will hold?” Please highlight three issues or thoughts about the Web that is disregarded or you feel important to share with our readers.

In all I felt this extensive article was a great read and I expect it to circulate the net quite quickly.

Tags: future, industry insight, projections