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Biffo!

I love a good bust up, and handbags are out after a recent Smashing Magazine post. This has exposed a bit of an ugly schism in the online design community. Look at the dust kicked up as we furiously type at each other, preparing our weakened upper bodies for opinion combat.

The post in question is called The death of the blog post and it’s about how creative we should be with the designs for each post in a blog. In the comments it seems there are two camps. The first thinks that we have become too bound to conventions and safety and aren’t employing design creatively enough to engage users, in this case the readers of blog posts. Basically we aren’t taking risks. The second seems to think that this is all self indulgent bullshit, putting our own creative needs ahead of the needs of the user.

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