The Fall of the Designer: The Fad of Laziness and Ignorance Prevails

I just read a fantastic series of articles that, unfortunately, showed me that things are even worse than I realized with regard to the business of design. Instead of summarizing it here, I'm just going to point you to the original content. It's in multiple parts and I recommend all of them.

• Fall of the Designer Part I: Fashionable Nonsense

• Fall of the Designer Part II: Pixel Pushers

• Fall of the Designer Part III: Conformist Responsive Design

• Fall of the Designer Part IV: Credible Threats

• Fall of the Designer Part V: Self-flagellation

Websites Should Behave Like Websites

I don't do much with this blog because, being a GUI perfectionist, I would rant all day about things no one seems to care about. But, well, maybe some people DO care:

Pretenders: Why mobile web apps should stop trying to act like native apps