Agile Web Design Manifesto from Ideacodes (via Read/WriteWeb)

Read/WriteWeb: New Web Development and Design Techniques:

Another great post is The Agile Web Design Manifesto, by Emily Chang and Max Kiesler of Ideacodes. They have come up with some core principles for this:

- Design the system not the surface
- Design as evolutionary and user-driven
- There is no page, only pathways
- Rapid and iterative over final
- Simplicity over complexity
- Collaborative and open design

So far this is just an outline, not a whole manifesto, but it's a good start. Some issues are immediately evident. If you design only the system, and don't pay attention to the surface, you won't have a shiny page people can get emotionally attracted to. There are all kinds of pathways through a system, but in each case they resolve to a page. Some systems have complexity in their nature and over-simplified approaches will not deal with the sharp corner cases that are part of the messy world that we live in.

Let's hope the remainder of the manifesto can deal with the messiness of the world.

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