{"id":1686,"date":"2013-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/08\/20\/1640\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:00:00","slug":"1640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/08\/20\/1640\/","title":{"rendered":"David Diamond: DAM Beauty and Usability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Diamond \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmswire.com\/cms\/digital-asset-management\/dam-beauty-and-usability-022160.php\">DAM Beauty and Usability<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeauty and usability are typically not words associated with digital asset management software, and for good reason. Have you seen the user interfaces of most DAMs?<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] DAMs should be as close to invisible as possible. No one learns to create digital content just to spend time in a DAM. Let the digital assets be the stars.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] Don\u2019t buy the \u201cit can look like anything you want!\u201d excuse. That just means it\u2019s a DAM you can\u2019t afford. <em>Something<\/em> must be available out of the box. See it. If the UI is ugly or it makes no sense to you, consider that Strike One against the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I love David\u2019s writing, opinionated and funny, and he\u2019s usually right. There\u2019s so much mediocrity in the DAM software market. Let\u2019s point it out and raise the bar. (If you\u2019re writing on the Web, please dare to have an opinion as well, and voice it clearly \u2013 this helps to not bore your readers.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Diamond \u2013 DAM Beauty and Usability: \u201cBeauty and usability are typically not words associated with digital asset management software, and for good reason. Have you seen the user interfaces of most DAMs? [\u2026] DAMs should be as close to invisible as possible. No one learns to create digital content just to spend time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}