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Lo cite hace tiempo en un Link-à-Porter. Hoy lo he vuelto a releer. No tengo tiempo para traducir lo que voy a citar, pero no quería dejar de hacerlo. Creo que merece mucho la pena e invita a una reflexión.

(…) designers are controllers (…) Designers want to override the wishes of users, and the choices that they have made about their viewing experience (by “fixing” font size, for instance). Designers want to second guess platform differences, caused by different logical resolutions (…) Designers are all-knowing, and will not tolerate anything less than a rendering on every browser that is pixel perfect with the rendering on their own machine.

Where does this idea come from? I believe it flows from the medium of print. In print the designer is god. An enormous industry has emerged from WYSIWYG, and many of the web’s designers are grounded in the beliefs and practices, the ritual of that medium. As designers we need to rethink this role, to abandon control, and seek a new relationship with the page.

A Dao of Web Design por John Allsopp