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What design skills? It uses lots of frosted glass and nature graphics, but if anything that just shows an ability to follow popular trends. It reminds me of Lon

What design skills? It uses lots of frosted glass and nature graphics, but if anything that just shows an ability to follow popular trends. It reminds me of Longhorn concept videos, especially the focus on æsthetics rather than utility.

smnscu 9y ago
Hence why I said skills and not taste.
coldtea 9y ago
>What design skills? I think parent means the ability to create more than decent looking application UIs with a consistent theme for lots of different apps (file viewer, music player, dock and toolbar, editor, etc), implement them in html/css, and add interactivity and code the functionality they offer -- and graphics that niggles aside wouldn't look out of place in an actual end product by a major company. The "ability to follow popular trends" is by itself a feat, considering it's a young student, he's also programming, and most programmers UI skills are something south of [1] or [2]. Nobody cares if they don't follow 2017's trends to a T, or if they overused some transparency in the result, it's the overall skills shown that matter. [1] http://csis335.wikispaces.com/file/view/bru_main_screen.jpg/180256289/409x270/bru_main_screen.jpg http://csis335.wikispaces.com/file/view/bru_main_screen.jpg/... [2] https://www.google.gr/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.37signals.com%2Fsvn%2Fimages%2F68-triplog-large.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsignalvnoise.com%2Fposts%2F1128-learning-from-bad-ui&docid=ACx4gdP6_QBXVM&tbnid=tm6QDpbVLPmdTM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjw7_e3mM7WAhVVF8AKHfKQBewQMwgsKAYwBg..i&w=304&h=456&bih=781&biw=1440&q=bad%20uis&ved=0ahUKEwjw7_e3mM7WAhVVF8AKHfKQBewQMwgsKAYwBg&iact=mrc&uact=8 https://www.google.gr/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.37signa...
StevePerkins 9y ago
I don't really care much about this project one way or the other. Even so, it is extremely frustrating to see someone put in THIS level of effort (As a university project! From someone who is primarily a coder!)... to then be taken down by 30-seconds worth of smug quips from some nobody on a discussion board. I am reminded of when the last round of Star Trek movies started up a decade ago. How the phrase "lens flare" quickly became an Internet meme. It's not that the effect was that over-used, and it certainly isn't that ANY of the Internet film geeks commenting on it will ever accomplish 1% of J.J. Abrams' life work. It was just a way of signaling to others, "I know some basic industry jargon. So I may not be on his level, but I'm slightly above YOUR level. Look up to me." I dunno. I have approximately 1000x more respect for this guy's "frosted glass" and "2010's design language" than I do for you. Talk is cheap, he shipped.
- foobarbecue 9y ago
  Shipped what, a plagarized ad video?
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
  I mean, I don't want to be as mean about it as I come across. It's great they're creating things. The praise just seems… misdirected. I find the execution more impressive than the actual design.

smnscu 9y ago

Hence why I said skills and not taste.

coldtea 9y ago

>What design skills? I think parent means the ability to create more than decent looking application UIs with a consistent theme for lots of different apps (file viewer, music player, dock and toolbar, editor, etc), implement them in html/css, and add interactivity and code the functionality they offer -- and graphics that niggles aside wouldn't look out of place in an actual end product by a major company. The "ability to follow popular trends" is by itself a feat, considering it's a young student, he's also programming, and most programmers UI skills are something south of [1] or [2]. Nobody cares if they don't follow 2017's trends to a T, or if they overused some transparency in the result, it's the overall skills shown that matter. [1] http://csis335.wikispaces.com/file/view/bru_main_screen.jpg/180256289/409x270/bru_main_screen.jpg http://csis335.wikispaces.com/file/view/bru_main_screen.jpg/... [2] https://www.google.gr/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.37signals.com%2Fsvn%2Fimages%2F68-triplog-large.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsignalvnoise.com%2Fposts%2F1128-learning-from-bad-ui&docid=ACx4gdP6_QBXVM&tbnid=tm6QDpbVLPmdTM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjw7_e3mM7WAhVVF8AKHfKQBewQMwgsKAYwBg..i&w=304&h=456&bih=781&biw=1440&q=bad%20uis&ved=0ahUKEwjw7_e3mM7WAhVVF8AKHfKQBewQMwgsKAYwBg&iact=mrc&uact=8 https://www.google.gr/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.37signa...

StevePerkins 9y ago

I don't really care much about this project one way or the other. Even so, it is extremely frustrating to see someone put in THIS level of effort (As a university project! From someone who is primarily a coder!)... to then be taken down by 30-seconds worth of smug quips from some nobody on a discussion board. I am reminded of when the last round of Star Trek movies started up a decade ago. How the phrase "lens flare" quickly became an Internet meme. It's not that the effect was that over-used, and it certainly isn't that ANY of the Internet film geeks commenting on it will ever accomplish 1% of J.J. Abrams' life work. It was just a way of signaling to others, "I know some basic industry jargon. So I may not be on his level, but I'm slightly above YOUR level. Look up to me." I dunno. I have approximately 1000x more respect for this guy's "frosted glass" and "2010's design language" than I do for you. Talk is cheap, he shipped.

foobarbecue 9y ago
Shipped what, a plagarized ad video?
TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
I mean, I don't want to be as mean about it as I come across. It's great they're creating things. The praise just seems… misdirected. I find the execution more impressive than the actual design.