Design Culture

Often when we think about the web, what comes to mind is a flurry of of text images videos and music mixed with a few lines of binary code and a scroll bar on the side. However this is only because not many of us think about the integral parts of a website that the authors put much time and effort into. It is interesting to think that with each line of text you see on a website, that it could have either taken a single person years or a team of individuals a few hours to create. However this fact is what makes the Internet such an interesting technology for design. Whether a single individual is making a website about a personal interest or hobby, or a team of executives is planning a new marketing promotion for a product, then internet is able to take peoples ideas and puts them into a tangible or visible form to be consumed. When thinking about all of the recent websites that have been gaining popularity as of late, a few that “pop out” are social networking sites such as Facebook,Twitter, Google groups and even Youtube. All of these sites not only manifest the ideas of their creators but also allow others to design and submit how they are presented on each site respectively. Another thing that most of these sites share in commonality is their ease of use. All of these websites are able to attract new users by providing functions that allow for the easy sharing of information and the ability to get help if needed. Websites such as these may seem to have risen out of obscurity by mere chance or luck however, the methods which were used to build them were also sound and are often overlooked when listing reasons for the success of a website.