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Modular Design: Core belief. Rams’ eleventh rule: “Good Design is modular.” Rather than designing layouts, we use building blocks that can be combined with maximum flexibility. Container-based Information Architecture plays a key role in modular web design.
How do you navigate content on the iPad? Scroll or flip? In 1987, the biggest neck beards in tech held a conference on the Future of Hypertext and there were two camps, “Card Sharks” and “Holy Scrollers”. They had an epic battle over this question: Should you scroll or flip pages on the screen? Who won the fight?
The last couple of days we have received some excellent feedback on our article “Washington Post Redesign as a Wiki”. First of all, thank you to everyone who took the time to study our problem and form an opinion. To be able to receive input from the best people in the field is rare and rewarding. We got lots of applause, together with some questions and reservations.
Corporate design manuals, CSS, information architecture and object oriented programming follow the same principle. They are modular.