What will hapen to design?
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- ilovemywork
Hello.
My name's Wouter Wijtenburg and quite unknown to NT-users.
Ive been surfing and viewing this site for a year or two know.Im wondering how you think of the following:
Recently ive been thinking it all over. Ive been a webdesigner for almost eight years now. Im working about 10 hours a day for 6 days a week with my own company. Always surfing around and checking out mags. Always making the same websites, different designs, different clients, but for these eight years technology has not changed that much to my opinion.
Im wondering what will webdesign become... will it stay like this and ultimately have a flash 16 plugin with Quicktime 33 but no real innovation and just be mainly a PC or Apple thing...
OR!
Will the web evolve to a major broadband medium accesable on every fammily's big plasma screentv and eventually we designers have to step into this new mobile/tv/interactive kinda design. Will todays webdesigners evolve to future designers for interactive television ads or quizzes?
Or will we just be designing 'flashy'sites till we're ready for a nursing home?
Thoughts? How do you feel?
- rasp0
the next three phases of the web. lawnmower man styleé.
- ilovemywork0
So this is what i did want to discuss in a few words:
Will the web DIE?
OR
Will the web be the new TV within five years from now?
- rasp0
erm.. tv is passive viewing. i hope not
- woodyBatts0
i don't think it will be the "new tv" mainly because TV's conceptual goal was entertainment, where the internet was communication. I can see a closer line between cellular phones and the internet moore so than tv, however I think cinema is going to blow wide open a dvd's become more and more tightly interactive.
- rasko40
it will all become an integrated synergy.
or something.
wheres my jetson copter?
- ilovemywork0
But dont you then think that the video-rent shops will make a sort of i-tunes application so that consumers can select their own movies on demand as in some hotels already? Wouldnt home-shopping such as TellSell improve their presentations and interactive options? Would maybe PC, TV and Mobile all be combined in a new intelligent video-call, interactive TV device? Im serious, this is no joke, but im truly wondering what can happen and withing wich timeframe from now?
- rasko40
not until they lay optic fibre everywhere
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- ilovemywork0
Here in The Netherlands the whizzies have managed to create a DSL connection speed internetacces from your electricity-output in the wall.
So whoever has electricity can acces DSL in a certain test-area. But think it over: Maybe goverments world-wide would make internet-acces through electricity- for free.Only, whatching tv will pop-up an ad every 15 minutes just like regualar tv. In this way using the internet for free at high speed also for the less fortunate famillies would cause a gigantic hype. Think: All these people ordering, informing themselfs, educating temselves, reading news from over te world, there would be such a big new market.
And in the wildest fantasy, just see the above hype happening with a follow up combination with movies, tv, games, internet and email all on existing tv's. All there is needed would be some sort of super-control-device.
I like the thought of it being possible... dont you?
- woodyBatts0
Well they are already doing that, it's called cable on demand, you can l"log in" choose the movie and it feeds into your tv at any time you want, it's awesome. My suster has it, and whenever i visit her I watch all my sopranos and sex in the cuty episodes i missed.:)
- spaniard0
I don't know about things not changing much, in my studio there are people who used to lay type by hand and remember the first mac with 58k memory. I suppose what you mean is the actual design process being pretty much the same, aside from the technology. At the end of the day, it's still the same principle of structuring and 'sculpting' information, the major changes are when technology advances so much that it creates shifts in actual aesthetics; screen printing or a hand drawn logo from the 40's still look beautiful, but when there's no need to print anything anymore they'll simply look antiquated. Ideas still, and will always count above everything else though.
- rasp0
do we get paid for this?
- woodyBatts0
With all due respect to the Netherlands, I can not see America ever giving internet for free.
Ever. Unless it's gonna kill someone, or it's going to a major corporation.
- iSolve0
yup on the fiberoptic.
you'll need bigger pipes....
- ********0
rasp, good question. hopefully, we could all agree that the web has, transcended the status of television, and has transcended the pitfalls which has made TV the narcotic it is today, namely the notion of celebrity and sitcom.
- Blofeldt0
My complicator gets the burds and it can pick up the inter web.
- iSolve0
and while were at it, can i ask to have the discovery channel back the way it was before.....
can't stand that channel now.
- rasko40
since when did governments want poor people educated?
- enobrev0
just made my morning rasko.
- ilovemywork0
No serious. Im really interested in what you seriouisly think the web is going to. Not only your view on it as a designer but also as a user of internet itself.
I have not set this tread up for anyresearch, only to have some people saying or having interesting ideas that can inspire oneanother... Just my thoughts ;)