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Hi. I'm Matt. This has been a place of regurgitation and frivolity (don't fret, it will continue to be) but, with any luck and a titch of effort, it will also become a place where I think, document and be more me than it has been previously. Run on sentence much?

• A conversation Dan Wineman has every month or so

  mrgan:

  Dan Wineman has a conversation with a restaurant website:

  Me: I just want to know how late you’re open.
  Website: Nope.
  Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something?
  Website: I’m ignoring you.
  Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a place to eat? Didn’t that ever occur to you?

  Even if Flash were the world’s best-engineered animation and interaction technology (which, lol, it’s not) scorn would be heaped on it for what it has allowed people to do to restaurant websites.

  That said, I recommend that you write a nice email to your local Flash-webbed business and suggest to them, as nicely as you can, that they offer a one-page summary of what you need to know: hours, location, menu if possible. My favorite restaurant in the world has an eye-gouging website which nevertheless tells you all you need to know in the first three seconds of browsing.

  2 years ago / 846 notes