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Comment on Are there too many rules in your design? by darryl

darryl — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:11:35 +0000

I will have to, although if by Hard Cover you mean Printed, then that’s a rule I have — NO Buy unless it’s Electronic. But can I borrow yours?

Comment on Are there too many rules in your design? by darryl

darryl — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:10:50 +0000

Hey Andrew, these relates specifically to conversations where rule based design was being discussed. It also refers to some of those oft quoted rules about where X should go, there are so many of them influencing designers but they aren’t overt influences now because they just follow them without challenging why.

There is of course still that question of “..Just because a client asks for it… ” but hey that’s a whole different debate

Comment on Are there too many rules in your design? by Sally Bagshaw

Sally Bagshaw — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:23:35 +0000

Have you read http://alwaysreadthemanual.com/? It’s a hard cover series about web design. Beautifully written and no lists of how to design for the web

Comment on Are there too many rules in your design? by Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:45:20 +0000

Interesting read Darryl. I think web design these days its not driven by rules as much but by the amount of content that has to be added. Clients that I am working with are asking for more and more pieces of content to be added to each page, post and app. It has become a real balancing act to ensure that you have a nice clean, simple and creative design whilst adding all the important pieces of content that the client has asked for.

Comment on Is a like really an advertisement? How it might affect your campaign. by Matt

Matt — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:54:49 +0000

Hey Darryl,
I’m with Andrew on this one. I think that, when you look at what “Sponsored Stories” actually are, the practise seems less intrusive. Namely, Sponsored Stories are only stories that are eligible to *appear in your News Feed*. So that can include any “stories” that would normally publish to your friends feeds, such as: Page likes, Page posts, Page post likes, check-ins etc.
My thinking on this? If you’ve already agreed to broadcast your relationship with a page through taking action that would publish to your friends’ news feed anyway, than you’ve already consented to showing this information to your friends. Considering that Sponsored Stories will only display your interactions to your friends, it’s not really different. All that’s happening is that Facebook is placing this “interaction news” in a different spot on the page

Also, yes: if you want to restrict this, then you need to restrict your “news feed” settings to reflect this. If you lock down what publishes out to your friends’ feeds, then you are effectively locking down sponsored stories at the same time.