Advertising – Duncan Stephen

Article — 1 March 2018 — 2,087 words

Media dinosaurs have the wrong scapegoat in Facebook

Media — Technology

Anyone who reads this blog will know by now that I am no fan of Facebook. But I will defend them on this. The newspaper industry’s attempt to pin the blame of their woes on Facebook is wrong.

Article — 13 November 2017 — 1,239 words

Facebook and Twitter are repeating the catastrophic mistakes of past designers

Architecture — Digital — Technology

Architects had to face up to the problems that eventually emerged with bold modernist designs. Now Facebook and Twitter need to wake up to the fact that their platforms are damaging society.

Article — 25 January 2017 — 650 words

Why people are losing trust in the media — and advertisers

Digital — Digital design digest — Media — User experience

Why people are losing trust in the media and advertisers, why ugly websites succeed, and why it’s time to ditch PDFs.

Article — 7 March 2016 — 1,467 words

Web developers need to shape up and declare war on webpage obesity

Digital — Web

As an industry, web professionals have failed their users. It’s time to stop building bloated and inaccessible pages.

Article — 3 March 2016 — 1,051 words

What the Accelerated Mobile Pages project tells us about the sorry state of web publishing

Digital — Web

The web is in a bad state of health right now. Web publishers and developers can blame themselves.

Article — 24 September 2015 — 910 words

Web design should be boring

Design — Digital — User experience — Web

The web is a less creative place than it was 20 years ago. Good.