March 19, 2004

I blog humbled

Jef­frey Veen cap­tures in words better than I have, or prob­a­bly ever will, what it is to design for the Web.

Here’s my big secret for you today. When you design for the Web — that is, when you design exclu­sively and specif­i­cally for this medium — when you do that natively, so many of the things we con­sider prob­lems just start to fall away. … And that’s why I don’t care about acces­si­bil­ity. Because when Web design is prac­ticed as a craft, and not a con­so­la­tion, acces­si­bil­ity comes for free.

Bril­liant! Work­ing in a cul­ture so dom­i­nated by print wears down my Web cre­ativ­ity, and notes like this charge it back up. I’ve got to get to SXSW next year.

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