Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design An Article by David Bryant Copeland brutalist-web.design Content is readable on all reasonable screens and devices. Only hyperlinks and buttons respond to clicks. Hyperlinks are underlined and buttons look like buttons. The back button works as expected. View content by scrolling. Decoration when needed and no unrelated content. Performance is a feature. What On Earth is a Brutalist Website?The split personality of brutalist web development brutalismwwwhtml
The Web is Industrialized and I Helped Industrialize It An Article by Dave Rupert daverupert.com In our cultural obsession with billionaire entrepreneurs we laud new features more than the maintenance and incrementalism work of making old features better and more accessible. Maintenance looks like red minus signs in the spreadsheet. New features look like green plus signs. New features look better on our LinkedIn profiles. New features have that pizzazz, baby. When gardening, the building of planters and initial planting is a very short process. The majority of your time is spent nurturing and monitoring growth. I personally feel the struggle between maintainer work and new shiny feature work. I enjoy that new feature smell but I know that my day-to-day is more like a janitor on a boat mopping up someone else’s barf. In terms of metaphors, the gardening metaphor is certainly better, and it acknowledges that design and development still tend to be more creative endeavors. featuresnoveltywww