Writing for Fast Company, design journalist Alissa Walker argues: “Architects are the original interactive designers. They’re skilled at creating navigable structures. They specialize in designing rich experiences for their users. But if architects designed their buildings the way they designed their Web sites, they’d all fall apart.”
I might say that the truth is that architects design sites that fall apart because they can’t design buildings that fall apart — and that they secretly yearn to do just that. Well, they don’t yearn to make unstable structures, but they do yearn to indluge their more fanciful ideas about spaces (albeit virtual spaces) free of the constraints of making them physically accommodating to real people. The Web is their opportunity to do just that, partly because a lot of these architects, in my estimation, just don’t take the Web that seriously, or at least seriously enough to really understand it before building for it. Read the full article here.
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