Karlshochschule International University

thinking about: design thinks …

Autor: Patrick Breitenbach am 16.09.2009

Next week some interesting people and I will give some lectures on the “web two.point.0.thingy” for some students of Karlshochschule. One topic will be “Webdesign”. No, these people will NOT learn how to design a website in photoshop. These people will learn what’s significant for developing design ideas and how to choose the right artist to manifest those ideas.

It will start with inspiring input. No instructions. Just pure inspiration:

After watching the video I virtually went up straight to Spiegel Online, one of the biggest german online news magazines to have a look at their design.

What a drag! I mean, it’s not a quite interesting magazine layout. The frontpage looks a little bit boring and I don’t get the topics of the day at a look. Well, I thought it would be a nice idea if the page gets a completely different character. It’s not a new idea – I know – but It looks a little bit more interesting, doesn’t it?

And here I scribbled the “mouse-something”-effect

This was produced really quick & dirty. It’s not an perfect artwork, it’s no perfect webdesign, it was inspired by a little TED talk I watched minutes before. But I think this may show you that we can create amazing designs & functions (along with incredible artists which will make the fine-tuning) if we know something about our perception and have the courage to break some rules from time to time. Maybe we all can play a little bit like that next week in our course? You’re welcome!