I recently read an article where the author was attempting to analyze the question, “What is Truth?” and then draw a comparison to truth in design, specifically web design. While I think art and design have nothing to do with truth, much less web design having anything to do with truth, I have decided to tackle a similar comparison. The difference is, I will draw conclusions which I hope will display just how different the two subjects are. “What is truth?” Pontius Pilate asked this question almost 2000 years ago. At the time, he had no inkling of the infamy which was to follow these words through the millennia. He asked the question as a jaded cynic—he had no interest in knowing the truth. In fact, his question is of a rhetorical nature, implying simply that there is no truth. And yet, in asking this question he hit the very crux of the […]