Blurred Lines: Art vs. Design
Creator's Block
English - December 03, 2018 22:17 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBusiness Arts Design content brands creation creator design hubspot inbound marketing storytelling website Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The conversation of creativity vs. function is not a new one in the design world, but today as I was browsing medium I stumbled across an article on the subject that really ruffled my feathers (to put it lightly).
Boris Müller, a Professor of Interaction Design at FH Potsdam, published a BOLD article that poses the question “Why Do All Websites Look the Same?” and even suggests that “The internet suffers from a lack of imagination”. Which, WOW… fatalist outlook much?
Müller postures that the internet has become a desolate wasteland of boring design (okay maybe he didn’t say it quite so dramatically) based in part largely CMS and blogging platforms.
As a counter argument he highlights some examples of his students’ work that he thinks demonstrates truly “creative” design.
I have a big issue with this.
The designs he highlights completely disregard function and audience and seem to solely be driven by designing for the sake of design. Which, to me, is not web design. In our industry we MUST be aware of audience and a site SHOULD serve a purpose.
Without purpose a page is not functional design, but simply an art piece.
Join Justine and I as I huff and puff over what makes web design truly good and how far SHOULD we push creativity vs. function.