Design and impermanence

I overheard a conversation in the elevator at work yesterday where a guy was talking about how their website is just about to launch, but since the cheap 3rd party vendor they used took so long they already are thinking about a redesign since “the world has changed.”

This reminds me of this crazy thing with MySpace recently where to recover your account you can email them a photo of yourself holding holding up a piece of paper with your profile URL.

The web changes fast enough that looking back on a project that started even a year ago can look so quaint and dated. The guy in the elevator’s company website probably looks neglected and old even though it is launching this week.