Why is Trash So Popular?
Gee, over the last three years of blogs.sun.com's existence, I've
blogged about all kinds of design-related topics, including...
- How to design for conversion
- How we do user-centered Web design at Sun
- The importance of well-crafted data (yawn) architectures for web sites
- The importance of (yawn) web deadlines
- How to visualize multidimensional VOC data simply
- Our customer product ratings, our new home page designs
- How we sniff out stale content
- Detailed discussions of redesigning our product sections
And yet, what's the most popular stuff? It's Comics, Trash Cans, and Gas Pumps!
Design Comics have been a very popular topic on this blog, so much so that I started the DesignComics.org site so that this blog wouldn't overrun with comic storyboards. That's great, since comic storyboarding is a legimimate design technique that many companies are using, but I wish topics about business objectives, user goals, usability plans, launch readiness criteria, and data (yawn) models got just as much traction.
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Trash Cans at Disneyland was another very popular topic on this blog. It's a chronicle of practical design of trash cans at Disneyland (which did win me an internal Sun "Bloggie" award, but who's counting?) OK, good design technique in here: How to make some obvious but blend in at the same time.
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And Gas Prices in Southern California. This doesn't have anything to do with Web design, and yet is this blog's all-time winner, beating Jonathan Schwarz's blog for a time. And the picture also ended up on the front page of USA Today!
Happy third birthday, blogs.sun.com!
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