[WebPub] New Blog Post: The Higher Ed Homepage Battleground

David J Conlon dconlon at MIT.EDU
Fri Aug 6 16:08:07 EDT 2010


Have you seen the xckd.com's comic venn diagram showing the user-centric
versus promotional design schools of thought?  I couldn¹t help but think how
this tongue-in-cheek cartoon not only applies to university homepages, but
also the homepages of individual departments, labs, and centers. Read our
article discussing the image and a reference to another must-read article
about this cartoon that set off a brush fire in Higher Ed web communities:

Read our post here: http://bit.ly/bWK5qd


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David J. Conlon
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