Keep It Simple, Stupid!

Let’s put it straight - simplicity is more complex than you probably think it is. To design a web-site in user-friendly tones, presenting all information and removing unnecessary details isn’t easy. In fact, many designers don’t manage to find the right mix between details and their presentation on the screen, which usually results in an information overkill and/or decreased usability. However, some designers do manage to find the right balance and create usable, elegant and clean web-sites with simple layouts.

Centered Designs

1. Davidville

2. The place Garrett Dimon calls home. | GarrettDimon.com

3. Drew Warkentin | Creative Solutions Daily.

4. Goplan - Online project management and collaboration tool

5. Business Logs: Blog Design, Blog Consulting, Web 2.0 Services.

6. 31Three - Web Development in Niagara, Ontario

7. 45royale, Inc. | Atlanta Web Design and Development

8. JeffCroft.com: Homepage

9. Web Design - Normanton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire - Grove

10. Jewelboxing - Super Jewel Box Packaging System - CD and DVD Cases

11. Studio MIKMIK: Graphic design and illustration by Michael Lewis

12. journal // hicksdesign

13. [Beta] Rapid coding collaboration: Springloops

14. Corking Design | Daniel Cork freelance web designer based in Manchester

15. Tijs Vrolix

16. Visit MIX07

17. Apple - iPod + iTunes

18. The Book Magazine - read online book reviews, author interviews

19. kottke.org :: home of fine hypertext products

20. Simple software to help you get organized: 37signals

21. t:m

22. The Missing Link - Homepage

23. Wishlistr: Skapa din egen onskelista

24. IconShoppe ~ Royalty-free stock icons for the web

25. Solution Watch - Your descriptive source of solutions

Left-aligned Designs

26. Navix Europe | Language, Creative & Consultancy Services

27. maybe.for.you.

28. Good Creative - Branding and Graphic Identity

29. Text Link Ads - Smart Link Marketing

30. Webdesign Werbeagentur Kassel Vitamin J Kommunikation

31. Subtraction 7.0

Vibrant and Dark Designs

32. We Create Things

33. Lighthouse

34. Centrigy™

35. nclud™ a creative web design agency

36. White Image - Irish Art

37. Revision3

38. The Consult - Creative Design Agency - Home

A Little Bit More Noisy, but Still Simple and Clean Designs

39. Webreakstuff

40. @media 2007 | The Cutting Edge Conference for Web Professionals

41. only a blog

Worth Mentioning

42. An Experiment Gone Useful - Artypapers

43. kartooner.com

44. Unspace

45. Wishingline Design Studios | Services - Services Summary

46. SXSW’07: After the Storm - Snook.ca

47. Design Observer: writings about design & culture

48. paulbeelen.com

49. Olof Lonnroth Design - Lonnroth.info

How the Porn Industry is Utilizing Social Media Network

We've all heard about how the pornography industry will decide which next-generation optical disc format (Blu-Ray or HD-DVD) will ultimately become the industry standard. Today with the addition of StumblePorn, let's take a look at the pornography industry's foray into the social media space, which is now almost complete. Beware, this post may not be suitable for all audience and for all social settings.

Socially Driven Pornography

In the first category we have several participants, primarily thanks to Pligg and how easy their content management system has made it to establish a socially driven site that essentially replicates all the functionality of Digg (minus the community). First we have MoSexIndex founded by Daniel Gluck, executive director of the Museum of Sex. And among the dozens of other similar sites we have we have socialporn.

Porn Video-Sharing

In the second category, and following in the footsteps of YouTube and how it popularized the online video sharing phenomenon we have several sites that let you upload, watch, and share pornography videos. Most prominent of these are YouPorn and PornoTube.

Social Porn Browsing

Somewhat similar to the first category and built exactly along the lines of popular web browsing toolbar StumbleUpon is StumblePorn. Just like in the non-porn plugin you choose what kind of pages you want to see (i.e. the kind of porn) and the plugin helps you stumble to those pages. One thing to note is that StumbleUpon does have an adult content section even though I doubt that the content on there is as graphic as what you will see in the new startup.



Ultimately the point of this post is not to simply direct you towards tools that let you access free pornography, but is to document how the social media space is maturing (no pun intended). This is another example of one more industry acknowledging the potential of social media as a medium for disseminating content and utilizing these various models (Digg, YouTube, StumbleUpon) to their benefit.

Notably missing, however, is pornography-based social networking. And considering that social networking has surpassed pornography in terms of online hours spent on each activity, it is foreseeable for the industry to embrace social networking as well.