Well, I'm going to assume you're not flame-baiting. That doesn't mean my own opinion won't generate a little heat.
I think the idea has some very small degree of merit, in the same way any visual imagery has merit as a design element. But overall it is crap, and a vestige of print designers' thinking that does not belong on the Web. The handwritten content must be rendered as an embedded image, which will require proper tagging for accessibility, and some people simply won't bother. In fact, this wasn't mentioned at all in the Smashing Magazine article -- which I think is patently irresponsible of the contributor. Good web design shares some characteristics and sensibilities with good print design and with good television and movie production values. But it is a new and different medium, with additional constraints and concerns that include portability and extensibility, and people who try to fit it into those old pigeonholes do us all a disservice ... especially when they lead others down that dead-end path with them. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29152 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
