Web design tools are skeuomorphs of print design tools, and this is a bad thing.

I've recently been re-reading (actually, reading from start to finish for the first time) Philip 'Vermeer's Camera' Steadman's The Evolution of Designs. The book is about biological analogy in design, focussing on architecture and industrial design. At work I've been gazing into the content production and management abyss, and I've been doing more thinking about web design. This post is the collision between those things, and some of the earlier thinking I did for my dissertation (which I'll try to get around to properly putting up on the site, with its images).

• 11.2.2005, 7.50
• File under: web design, design, Philip Steadman, crtitique, design tools, software