- “Complete with year-by-year factsheets, Google insights, and commentary from the creators themselves, it’s a must-have for anyone looking to design the future.”
- “At some 640 pages, the tome is part nostalgia trip, part reference work.”
- “…capturing these advances in interaction design will be of lasting value to both historians and future generations of developers.”
Web Design. The Evolution of the Digital World 1990–Today
Hardcover, 7.7 x 10.0 in., 3.61 lb, 640 pages50Edition: English, French, German Availability: In Stock
Web Design. The Evolution of the Digital World 1990–Today
50When the World Went Digital
A sweeping reference work of the websites that paved the pixelated way
This collection is a visual journey through time, gathering the very earliest examples of what we today take for granted: the first website to use surround sound, the first drag-and-drop navigation, the first page-turn effect, the first website to use seamless video integration, the first viral site, the first parallax website, the first ‘upload-your-face’ website, the first site to incorporate a mobile phone, the first ever YouTube-like “website”, and many more.
It gathers more than 200 websites, and each comes with quotes and insights from the creators themselves—an invaluable peek into the minds of pioneers who paved the pixelized way for many to follow, including Jonathan Gay (Flash), Gabo Mendoza (Gabocorp), Yugo Nakamura (Yugop), Peter Van Den Wyngaert (NRG.BE), Joshua Davis (Praystation), and Eric Jordan (2Advanced).
This comprehensive visual history gathers 21 chapters that detail, for every year since 1998, the best websites and examples of hardware used at the time, and explore how user experience, usability, and technological milestones have influenced the development of the internet we use today. Year-by-year factsheets and smart Google insights orient the reader through major developments across such categories as world news headlines, highest grossing films, new soft and hardware, greatest website traffic, and many more.
For many, this collection will offer a virtual trip down nostalgia lane—but all generations will find a sweeping reference work as well as a celebration of how the earliest creative minds came to define the web, and eventually the world, as we know it.
The author
Rob Ford founded the Favourite Website Awards (FWA) in 2000, a recognition program for cutting-edge web design. He is a pioneer of Internet awards and has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Guardian and various web-related magazines. He has judged many industry award shows, contributes regularly to web design sites and magazines, and wrote a regular column in Adobe’s flagship newsletter for seven years.
The editor
Julius Wiedemann studied graphic design and marketing and was an art editor for newspapers and design magazines in Tokyo before joining TASCHEN in 2001. His titles include the Illustration Now! and Record Covers series, as well as the infographics collection and books about advertising and visual culture.
Web Design. The Evolution of the Digital World 1990–Today
Hardcover, 19.6 x 25.5 cm, 1.64 kg, 640 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-7267-5
Edition: English, French, German5