web design – Jack Lenox

Talk: How better performing websites can help save the planet

I’ve talked about this topic a couple of times. For the time being I think this is the definitive version:

Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need

For the past few weeks, I’ve been living in the French ski resort Flaine. It’s a bit different to most ski resorts. Whereas the general aesthetic of a ski resort is picturesque wooden chalets with smoking chimneys, Flaine is a brutalist concrete paradise. The Barbican of the Alps.

I read this this morning. It’s a sublime observation of where web design has come from, and where it is hopefully going.