Growing today’s Internet
into tomorrow’s media landscape

Where you’re coming from

Raise your hand if…

Where I’m coming from

We won’t mention the stint
as a disco-era night club disc jockey

Jay’s Triangular Philosophy of Management

I’m smarting over this …

The adolescent Web
vs. mature digital media

What have we done?

Why I call it ‘the adolescent Web’

Why I say digital media are ‘mature’

What we think we know
about Internet design

Information design model

The best digital media format for today’s Web
is still … text!

The interfaces that are most usable today
aren’t much to look at

Designers with strong creative drives
really, really hate that!

Good uses for today’s Web

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Case study: My hometown paper, online

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Problematic uses for today’s Web

But those are the strengths of digital media!

So what gives?

Emerging Internet technologies
and (mostly) positive trends

Trend: Better markup

XML in action at WSJ.com

XML in action at WSJ.com

XML in action at WSJ.com

XML in action at WSJ.com

Why is better markup
important to digital creatives?

Trend: Better compression

Why is better compression
important to digital creatives?

Connected devices mean
the Internet isn’t just for PCs anymore

Connected devices mean
the Internet isn’t just for PCs anymore

Connected devices mean
the Internet isn’t just for PCs anymore

Connected devices mean
the Internet isn’t just for PCs anymore

But there are roadblocks

Engineering challenges for small electronics

Designing for these devices
feels a lot like Web design circa 1994

Competition creates design anarchy

Is Web design really so confining?

The Web and digital media

Back to the future

Back to the future

Why Chuck Jones matters

Jones wasn’t the best technical artist
or animator, and he didn’t ‘create Bugs Bunny’

He was an auteur

And that’s what I would wish for you …

Thank You!