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Web 2.0 for Designers

Posted by TimSlavin at October 1, 2005

"Web 2.0 has often been described as “the Web as platform,” and if we think about the Web as a platform for interacting with content, we begin to see how it impacts design. Imagine a bunch of stores of content provided by different parties—companies, individuals, governments—upon which we could build interfaces that combine the information in ways no single domain ever could. For example, Amazon.com makes its database of content accessible to the outside world. Anyone can design an interface to replace Amazon’s that better suits specific needs (see Amazon Light). The power of this is that content can be personalized or remixed with other data to create much more useful tools.

There are six trends that characterize Web 2.0 for designers. In this introductory article we’ll summarize each of those trends and give brief examples. In upcoming articles we’ll explore each trend in more detail."

A great overview of the issues involved in what is being called Web 2.0, from Digital Web Magazine. I've also posted a link to some of the technology, called Ajax, in a post, A Whole New Web. And be sure to check the eHub story mentioned below in this issue, another location with links to this phenomenon.

And I see Wired has an article, Are You Ready for Web 2.0?, that summarizes the second annual Web 2.0 conference held this week. Includes links to lots of interesting products and companies. Seems like the bandwagon is filled and ready to go.

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