Bill Higgins talks about the danger of web designers trying to create online applications look and act too much like their regular desktop-based cousins. This is an interesting point, but regarding an issue that is still very much in flux. Web design needs new metaphors for getting things done, and what happens to the tools that are a natural mix between web-based and desktop apps, such as the iTunes Store, Twitterrific, Evernote, RSS readers, etc.?
18 December, 2008