“A website is for a visitor, using a browser, running on a computer to read, watch, listen, or perhaps to interact. A website that embraces Brutalist Web Design is raw in its focus on content, and prioritization of the website visitor.”
This is how I have designed pile.org, though I hadn’t rigorously thought through my philosophy, and it springs as much from my inability and unwillingness to engage with fancier design as from a focus on readers' needs.
“I like to imagine that Cello and Mosaic were both inspired by the same trends happening in user interface design at the time. My theory is that Windows 3.1 had just come out a few months before the beginning of both projects, and this interface was the first to use blue prominently as a selection color.”
“The [New York] Times in particular is a well-resourced standard-bearer for digital journalism, with a robust institutional archiving structure. Their interest in facing the challenge of linkrot indicates that it has yet to be understood or comprehensively addressed across the field.”
“Okay, wild! We guessed someone else’s tweet ID! And as the IDs are time-dependent that means they were met with an instantaneous retweet—creepy. Also, it seems like Twitter doesn’t actually care about the username and just resolves URLs based on the tweet ID.”