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what is going on with those screenshots, why would you add a torn paper effect to pictures of your high tech product
by kobe_bryant 6y ago
what is going on with those screenshots, why would you add a torn paper effect to pictures of your high tech product
- ckolkey 6y agoThey didn't use transparency either, so it looks extra good in dark mode ;)
- mstipetic 6y agoI have no idea how a company so large can have such poor design. The new management web interface looks like a hastily made bootstrap theme. My only explanation is that Bezos himself chooses the designs and nobody can object.
- pedroma 6y agoTorn paper thing (and the whole blogpost) is prob a marketing team only thing. Actual product interface looks okay to me.
- rietta 6y agoProbably as an affordance to communicate that you cannot click/interact with the screenshot!? ::shrug::
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoIt's fine for me. A shell is not something from the future, no need for fancy graphics. It also has logical semantic meaning: staright line = end if the content "torn" line = content is "cut off"
- p1mrx 6y agoProbably to indicate that the screenshot was cropped to only show part of the viewport.
- manigandham 6y agoUsually that effect is to show that the particular edge it’s applied to has been cropped.
- jtsiskin 6y agonot only that is has been cropped, but you instantly know that the button is in the upper right hand side
- encoderer 6y agoAWS has such obvious contempt for the design profession that no sane designer would choose to work there.
- KptMarchewa 6y agoI would say that's the problem with Amazon overall.
- human 6y agoI might argue that it’s their recipe to success. Their UIs, from Amazon.com to AWS are pretty intuitive and content-oriented. It’s their style and it works for them.
- Thorncorona 6y agoThere are many ways I'd describe Amazon's UIs, but intuitive is certainly not one of them.
- sswaner 6y agoMaybe it is a good look with purple hair?
- cle 6y agoOne of the most frustrating things about HN for me these days is going into the comments to read more about the content of an article, and instead being bombarded by people nitpicking the design of it.
- sbierwagen 6y agoComments on presentation are quick and easy to make. They show up soonest on a submission, and since they're at the top, collect upvotes. Comments on content take longer to write, end up below comments on presentation, and receive fewer upvotes.
- angry_octet 6y agoHN should have randomised ordering of presentation of top posts, with a sort of simulated annealing technique that fades over time, so leaves are sorted to the top based on the branch total vote count after some hours.
- angry_octet 6y agoI dislike it when people complain about people disliking the design and presentation of a site, because it devalues the reality that these are important for effective communication.
- WoahNoun 6y agoJeff Barr has used the torn paper effect on screenshots for the AWS blog for many years. It's not a one-off for this article. You can see it on basically every blog post he has made for a decade.
- jeffbarr 6y agoThanks for being such a long-time reader!
- ljm 6y agoIt's a blog post, not a PR piece. The only issue I take with it is in the first screenshot, where it says to 'click the CloudShell icon' and then presents you a screenshot that doesn't actually highlight what and where the icon is. You just have to already know that '>_' is some sort of hacker parlance for a shell. It's just a picture of the corner of the page.