Re: Launch of Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design

Hi Bob -

--- Bob Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote:

> But the articles are different in kind and
> exist in different categories.  This makes the familiar navigational
> rules potentially misleading.  GAIN isn't CLEAR, for example:  the 
> articles aredifferent in content and meaning.
> 
> This potential mismatch occurs each time a new journal is added to the
> AIGA collection.  

I agree. We struggle with this too, in fact, each time we add new content
to the site. Because each area has a different type of content, and
therefore, a potentially different audience, should there be separate
structures. Or more extreme, should there be separate sites? 

Since I’m working with a structure that has been in place for a while,
I’ve been trying to tame inconsistencies and make the structure work for
us. There is a need for a re-examination for sure.

> The articles are high quality, but what about some non-designer-authored
> articles, outsider points of view?  The current articles are mostly
> self-reflection and self-reference in the published articles (which less
> generously can be called "navelgazing").  There's less in the how-to
> articles and more in the how-can-we-do-things-better articles, which
> portends a lot of upstream swimming.

It’s good to hear that there is more of a need for how-to-type articles.
Some of these are posted in the Design Forum (designforum.aiga.org) at
large, but has not been a category that’s been well documented
traditionally on the site.

> I enjoy very much the interdisciplinary quality of GAIN, which lifts the
> issue of holistic design out of the web-service mire.  Very cool.
 

Thanks for this and for for the ideas on article types. I’ll be posting
editorial guidelines to the site soon, and will be including this in my
overview.

Best -
Liz



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> ; kind of nondistinctive.  On 2/24/06 3:10 PM, "Liz Danzico"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > --- Steve Portigal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> The mailing list will focus on one topic per
> >> week.
> >>> 
> >>> http://designforum.aiga.org/content.cfm/aigagainlist
> >> 
> >> At the risk of sounding cliched, or like a grumpy creaky curmudgeon,
> >> that page is lame. You already told me what the link was far - all I
> >> want to do is click and enter my information.
> > 
> > I'll be the first to admit that curmudgeons often have good insight,
> so I
> > appreciate the feedback regardless. There's nothing we can do about
> most
> > of it, but we have separated out the links.
> > 
> > As it happens, we are at the early stages of a redesign project, so
> link
> > colors will be a consideration without a doubt.
> > 
> > - Liz
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