It is difficult to compete sometimes – that’s natural. But the Web Industry suffers from a huge number of amateurs who are pretending to be professionals. And sometimes you meet a client who wants to compare your (truly) professional services with those of these charlatans masquerading as a “worthy” adversary.

In this article I am going to look at the user experience of a “where’s my nearest …” system I had the misfortune to use at the weekend. I don’t know who designed it, but it broke all the rules.

Loved this comic depicting the interaction between designer and client. I can relate to this as I have been in similar situations before. Also love the quote “If you were an engineer designing the turbine of a commercial airplane, would they interfere then, I wonder?”

The web is a content delivery medium; the more effectively we can deliver the content to our target audience, the more effective our website will be for our business. So, if the web is a content delivery medium, shouldn’t content be the most important element of our design and development process and not the design?

The web has changed, and so has the art of creating web sites. Few visual designers are natural programmers, and as a result, visualizing how to work with markup, CSS and a range of programmatic techniques to create beautiful design is difficult. So how do creative designers learn to be artistic yet functional?