Web Design Evolution: Two Decades of Innovation

Here is an interesting infographic about web design thanks to Mashable.

There are two trends to note:

1. The digital experience is getting richer. Buh-bye 8-bit days. At some point soon, we will begin to ask ourselves, wait, is that real?

2. The digital experience is getting more personal. In a similar way to how the telephone became a ubiquitous means of communication because hearing the other person's voice in one's ear was very personal, the internet is becoming more and more customized. At some point, how we visualize the internet may be personalized to each user.

From an advertising perspective, will advertisers learn how to customize creatives by users? (Hint: it's not one size fits all. So stop just putting TV commercials online, please.)

Don't know. But only time will tell.

On a side note...

For those of you who are following along my adventure to learn how to make infographics, I  now have a list of free (or relatively cheap-ish) courses that can teach me Adobe Illustrator.

For the next month, I will be trying Vector Diary's Illustrator Training Crash Course. It uses an earlier version of Illustrator, but I believe it's a good place to start.

The Fall of MySpace And The Rise of LinkedIn

Social networks are cool. They are so cool that I’m part of at least five of them.

The trouble with social networks is that they are fickle. What is popular in one moment is not necessarily popular in the next.

I’ll be honest. When I first joined Twitter in 2008, I wasn’t sure if it was going to take off. I actually don’t remember the original account name because I logged in once in 2008 and haven’t since. At the time, I thought that the “texting” like structure of Twitter wouldn’t work online. Given today’s date, I was wrong.

I came across an infographic about social media from Mashable, “The Winners & Losers of Social Networking”.

I think infographics are cool. They are so cool that I’m going to try to learn Adobe Illustrator. We’ll see how far I go.

I’m passing along this infographic because it’s cool and it combines two things I think are cool.