5 posts tagged “design”
Man, this is one of the big reasons why Jessi and I are still considering a move to Chicago. The town just gets a much higher ratio of cool conferences like this, while Denver is barely at the sloppy seconds level. I don't think we even got one of the Adobe + Apple CS3 seminars that came to Apple Stores around the country for the product launch. This isn't just about geeking out either; these would be great events also from a networking perspective; meeting, greeting and tossing around business cards...
Decisions, decisions.
Well, at least the Zune does *one* thing right so far: offer good visual feedback when something goes wrong with the software installation. Simple error messages weren't good enough for this engineering team, no - they had to find (or actually shoot?) some photography that really drives the point home of how painful bad design can truly be.
Kudos guys.
[image and link via Engadget]
Originally published at 1FPS. You can comment here or there.
Originally published at 1FPS. You can comment here or there.
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Nice redesign. I like the new structured and simplified layout. The nav rollovers are handy, though I'm not so sure about the choice in color for the block banners. It's a muddy color to begin with, and it blends just a little too much with the headline colors, probably due to their thin serifs.
Still, a good show, and a fantastic upgrade from their previous site.
While I know how to put together a halfway decent website (with the help of CSSEdit), and I can poke around and mildly hack a WordPress or phpBB install, I by no means consider myself knowledgeable on the web design industry or where it’s heading. Keep this in mind - there will be a quiz afterwards.
Even though I’m not prime material for A List Apart, I’m still bothered by what I read and experience in terms of web standards. To put my worries succinctly: web standards don’t seem very standard.
The evidence
Websites that open one way in Safari can look completely different in Firefox on Windows. Another site that passes the test in IE6 (haha, I know) might have a snowball’s chance in hell of displaying properly (or at all) in Camino on Mac OS X. I don’t use Linux, so I don’t know how their web experience stacks up.
What gives?
I keep hearing about things like specs for CSS2 and CSS3, or one browser’s support for passing The Acid2 Browser Test - though I’ve also heard that one particular browser company created said test and therefore could be a tad biased. But what’s the deal here? Why doesn’t a CSS2-compliant site look right in Safari, Firefox, Opera, Flock, Camino, Konqueror, AOL and OmniWeb? By contrast: a JPEG - or if we want to keep this discussion in the realm of open standards: PNG - looks the same¹ in iPhoto, GIMP, Preview, Picasa, Windows and Photoshop, right?
Exasperated sigh
Ultimately, I’m a nobody, so it’s not like my complaints here are going to land on the front page of digg or Netscape, nor are they going to strike an inspirational chord in the hearts of the development teams for IE, Opera, Konqueror, WebKit and Mozilla (statistical difficulty: it would have to strike that tune in every team). This is more of an “ugh, I both love and hate the web, and it’s the fault of all this ‘web standards’ sillyness” post than anything. I guess I just need to be happy that tools like del.icio.us and Delibar have finally made browser-specific bookmarks irrelevant; at least that’s one step in the right direction of finally improving the previously stagnating web browsing experience.
1. - Of course, this is if you don’t make too big of a deal of whether these applications listen to elements of image formats like color profiles, which, for example, Apple’s Preview does not. Case in point: the image still looks pretty much the same; little Johnny’s head in the family portrait isn’t suddenly polka-dotted and misplaced in the upper left corner when the image is opened in one app or another.
**I originally wrote this post at 1FPS, one of my other blogs, a while ago. I'm reposting it here because I think it could use a little more attention from a community like this.**
This is an absolutely brilliant commercial on Coke’s part, and I mean: absolutely. First thing I’ve found in a long time that warrants a ‘brilliant’ tag.
