Mark Boulton began his career in design at the age of two - his parents had trouble getting him to write as drawing pictures to communicate was so much easier for him. After earning a 1st class honors degree at Portsmouth University in Typographic Design, he launched upon a design career that took him from print-related work in Manchester and Sydney, Australia, into cyberspace via Agency.com and, most recently, bbc.co.uk. Recently he became infatuated with Web Standards and User Centered design and attended SXSW in Austin, US last year.
I've been thinking about this for a while now. What will it mean to design in
this industry in the coming years, and how will we, as designers, have to
adapt in order to get the most out of it?
But before I talk about that, I'd like to talk about design. What is it? More
importantly what has it become? And how will it be in the future?
What is it? A brief history
For many years now, design has been viewed as being esthetic. Design equals
How Something Looks. You see this attitude to design in every part of society
- clothing design to interior design. Less so in product design, and yes, in
web design.
Years ago, when the web first went mainstream, we saw designers move to it
from a number of industries - architecture, print design and multimedia
(CD-ROM and kiosk) design.... (more)
Mark Boulton began his career in design at the age of two - his parents had trouble getting him to write as drawing pictures to communicate was so much easier for him. After earning a 1st class honors degree at Portsmouth University in Typographic Design, he launched upon a design career that took him from print-related work in Manchester and Sydney, Australia, into cyberspace via Agency.com and, most recently, bbc.co.uk. Recently he became infatuated with Web Standards and User Centered design and attended SXSW in Austin, US last year.
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