Edited by author 08-22-2000 07:31 PM
I tend to think a lot in term of the "Course in General Lingüistics", by Saussure (well, his lessons were penned down by a student, actually. and s/he gets no credit. duh). I think "what is the opposite of this?", "would it mean anything?", "would it serve any function?", "is that a function we need?"...

"¿Are we extending the right set of meanings?" "¿Will people get our conventions?"

So you see, all this Difference and Binary Opposites stuff you learn when training as a linguist is quite useful when doing web design.

That and "A Pattern Language", by Christopher Alexander, but you already know that.

BTW, the URLS on this discussion forum technology thingie just plain suck. And there is no preview feature. Though this edit/delete feature makes up for it. Only I did not know it was there. tsk tsk.