Last week, Nike and I attended Adaptive Path’s UX WEEK 2007 conference. It was great to meet colleagues from all over the world and exchange ideas and thoughts. Also, it was pretty cool not having to explain what user experience is – everyone there just knew :). And there was a lot of “I see what you mean” and “Yeah, I felt the same way back then” and also “We had to deal with the similar issues in our work” and stuff. I must say that felt great. User experience at the moment is more like an evolving theory or ...

When they gave me a task to make a web2.0 skin, I was absolutely sure: web2.0 has nothing to do with design. All 2.0 sites are 2.0 because of their functionality, not because of their appearance. It’s as simple as that. No skin on earth can single-handedly turn your application into web2.0 if it’s not 2.0 already.

So what is web 2.0?

These are user oriented applications providing services instead of selling product. Usually the service is free (gmail), or low-cost (flickr paid accounts), rarely requires installation and it is updated and maintained on a daily basis ...