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A side comment about the nausea-inducing motion background. The Bloomberg story credits shown at the bottom include: "Design and development: James Singleton"
by jasode 9y ago
A side comment about the nausea-inducing motion background. The Bloomberg story credits shown at the bottom include: "Design and development: James Singleton"
When you go to James' website showing off his portfolio[1], you see the websites he creates have busy motion and pulsating colors. Apparently, there are lots of media buyers that like that and keep paying for his services. (E.g. a previous Bloomberg feature with the disembodied head of Elon Musk bouncing around and a flashing "CLICK TO ENTER".[2])
It's definitely a different design aesthetic from Mike Bostock (d3.js) of The New York Times.
[1] http://jamespants.com/ http://jamespants.com/
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/elon-musk-goals/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/elon-musk-goals/
- jetcata 9y agoThe moving background made me motion sick, had to leave the page before i could finish
- culot 9y agoIt's hard to believe anyone would pay for that. That is atrocious.
- contingencies 9y agoTo give the designer the benefit of the doubt, it might be optimized for tablets or TVs or something. On a desktop, the combination of motion and content resizing with scrolling is fundamentally irksome.
- prepend 9y agoI largely judge the design based on my device. It’s an iPhone and fairly common. If the design still makes me nauseous, I blame the designer. Perhaps it was designed for a tv or tablet or whatever, but they showed it to me.