Dao Day 2024 – a regression in the making | Clagnut by Richard Rutter

April 10, 2024

It’s twenty four years to the day since A List Part published John Allsopp’s seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. It must be one of the most vital and cited articles ever to be written about web design. In it John quoted the Tao Te Ching as a way of persuading us web designers to be like The Sage and “accept the ebb and flow of things”.

Source: Dao Day 2024 – a regression in the making | Clagnut by Richard Rutter

So a little bit of self aggrandisement here–Richard Rutter observed that just the other day it was 24 years since an article I wrote (technically) in the last millennium was published.

A Dao of Web Design is still referenced online, which is gratifying and humbling. Richard reflects on it 24 years later.