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For a website that is all about design, I found this website to be not very intuitive or pleasing to look at. I may be in the minority though. I found the typo

by TheBiv 11y ago

For a website that is all about design, I found this website to be not very intuitive or pleasing to look at. I may be in the minority though. I found the typography was too big, there were too many bold/italics/font sizes and the actual elements of what makes good design made me click in order to reveal what the elements are.

Khao 11y ago
This feels to me like design overload. Someone tried to do too much or too many ideas in a single page. I'm with you, I don't like it.
- profinger 11y ago
  Agreed. It's just overwhelming to look at!
- mod 11y ago
  I also had this feeling, but I'm a far cry from an expert, so I kept my mouth shut. I can confidently say I wasn't a big fan of the design, though.
vog 11y ago
I also don't get it. One of the most important rules about good design is consistency, and this one looks noisy and cluttered. This website does the opposite of what two former fellow students did: In a seminar they held a talk about aesthetics in software development. At the beginning, they told us that they couldn't agree on what makes good aesthetics, so they simply designed their slides with the worst aesthetics they came up with. However, their slides still contained black-on-white text, upright, in readable size. Moreover, as they continued their presentation, we noticed that all slides had exactly that same "bad" style. They were consistent! Although those students strived for something different, they subconciously applied good common sense and did all important things right. It was good design, after all.
- nosuchthing 11y ago
  This webpage has consistent design themes, it's just the layout here is more inspired by magazine layouts than by the standard grid most website layouts conform to.
Jack000 11y ago
I think it's pretty good. The grid is rather irregular so it looks a bit disjointed, but I think that's the intended effect. Reminds me of a magazine layout.
Theodores 11y ago
You should try it on your phone. Clearly responsive design is not yet design. Personally I make it clear in website design conversations that design is not graphic design or anything to do with drawing pretty pictures in Photoshop. I then explain that design is in the information architecture used to specify the products, the etymology of how the information is structured and the customer interaction and that we need to get that up to back-of-napkin sketch before we need worry ourselves with artistic interpretations of social network buttons. Maybe I go a bit far in not wanting people fiddling with graphic design, I talk of that as 'theming' or 'styling the frontend'.
amk_ 11y ago
> makes good design made me click in order to reveal what the elements are I kind of liked that part. If you already know about a term, you can skip over it, but if you don't, you get more info without leaving the page.

by TheBiv 11y ago

Khao 11y ago

This feels to me like design overload. Someone tried to do too much or too many ideas in a single page. I'm with you, I don't like it.

profinger 11y ago
Agreed. It's just overwhelming to look at!
mod 11y ago
I also had this feeling, but I'm a far cry from an expert, so I kept my mouth shut. I can confidently say I wasn't a big fan of the design, though.

vog 11y ago

I also don't get it. One of the most important rules about good design is consistency, and this one looks noisy and cluttered. This website does the opposite of what two former fellow students did: In a seminar they held a talk about aesthetics in software development. At the beginning, they told us that they couldn't agree on what makes good aesthetics, so they simply designed their slides with the worst aesthetics they came up with. However, their slides still contained black-on-white text, upright, in readable size. Moreover, as they continued their presentation, we noticed that all slides had exactly that same "bad" style. They were consistent! Although those students strived for something different, they subconciously applied good common sense and did all important things right. It was good design, after all.

nosuchthing 11y ago
This webpage has consistent design themes, it's just the layout here is more inspired by magazine layouts than by the standard grid most website layouts conform to.

Jack000 11y ago

I think it's pretty good. The grid is rather irregular so it looks a bit disjointed, but I think that's the intended effect. Reminds me of a magazine layout.

Theodores 11y ago

You should try it on your phone. Clearly responsive design is not yet design. Personally I make it clear in website design conversations that design is not graphic design or anything to do with drawing pretty pictures in Photoshop. I then explain that design is in the information architecture used to specify the products, the etymology of how the information is structured and the customer interaction and that we need to get that up to back-of-napkin sketch before we need worry ourselves with artistic interpretations of social network buttons. Maybe I go a bit far in not wanting people fiddling with graphic design, I talk of that as 'theming' or 'styling the frontend'.

amk_ 11y ago

> makes good design made me click in order to reveal what the elements are I kind of liked that part. If you already know about a term, you can skip over it, but if you don't, you get more info without leaving the page.