Monday, January 02, 2006

The design of blogs

I had just returned from my Christmas break from design and computing -- from doing, not from thinking about them -- when a welcome online article fell into my consciousness from UX land.

I had been thinking about how my earlier posts (some of which, ahem, are quite good) slowly fall off the first page and into the relative obscurity of the archives. Once there they become virtually invisible, even though some of the remaining posts may refer to them. No threading is available, at least not through Blogger. No way to indicate commonalities in any way, unless you do it manually and continuously. It is a bad design.

Hope springs eternal, and someone brighter has written an interesting article about what changes could be made. It can be found at LukeW Interface Designs. The article includes some good links and illustrations. Luke Wroblewski also has a number of good articles beyond this one.

More thoughts to come . . . .

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