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georgelopez66
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Posted: 27 March 2010 at 4:37am \| IP Logged

Morning.
hi i am new here.. I am posting this Thread just for getting some public opinion,,,

A current client peddling some art supplies is insisting the website itself should be "avant-garde, a work of art," and is throwing out all usability and design standards (like navigation bars/menus, header/footer, etc) merely because they deal with "art."

I will be the first to admit I have much to learn about design still - so I welcome these kinds of challenges and try to learn from them. I am having discussions with her about keeping her target audience in mind, etc.

Any advice/talking points/links to read from the trenches? I try to stay current on blogs like ALA or Smashing, but would love some real world info.

Thanks.

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lexeme
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Posted: 31 March 2010 at 2:51pm \| IP Logged

the art supplies company wants to throw out usability standards on their website? I guess its their choice, but I for one find it really annoying when websites/software is not user-friendly. Makes no sense to me why you would make things more difficult in the name of "art"

jr6300
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Posted: 14 April 2010 at 6:06am \| IP Logged

"Makes no sense to me why you would make things more difficult in the name of "art" "

Agreed....but I think you have the wrong forum for website design.

This is a CMM form:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate-measuring_machine

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