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Vintage 2.0 - Glossy Retro Takes Over Web Design

12 points by mancuso5 17y ago

TrevorJ 17y ago
Nice find, thank you.
Locke1689 17y ago
Is it simple, clean, and provide a lot of whitespace? Is it based on only a few solid colors and provide an intuitive and quick method for completing its task? If so, I like it. I really buy into the whole design-for-your-product idea. I also really appreciate clean lines and a lot of whitespace. Good contrast, like tasteful transparency, can do a lot to make your site look professional as well. Most importantly, though, your site has to be useable. If you have a 4 MB background image and use MySQL with all the defaults, I don't care what your site looks like, its gonna be too slow for me to use.
nanijoe 17y ago
The designs they are talking about are nice - as magazine covers
davidalln 17y ago
Great find. In general I'm a huge fan of the style, but there are some instances where it is inappropriate, such as for GetSatisfaction. It looks very unprofessional and doesn't really sell their service very well. A website that is trying to get potential business from established companies should employ a linear website that is very easy to follow, not just an unordered conglomeration of text on a blue background.
DTrejo 17y ago
I felt that many of these designs were too busy. I didn't know where to look or pay attention.
- qeorge 17y ago
  I agree. I really didn't like the sites they chose to showcase. Its a cool style that might work in some cases, but I don't see it becoming mainstream.
jamesbritt 17y ago
I remember when David Siegel's Creating Killer Web Sites came out. It was the bomb. Full of lots of ideas and techniques for creating busy, complex, taken-straight-from-print Web pages that take forever to load. Of course, I didn't quite see it that way as the time; I was thrilled to use the single-pixel hack and get my table spacing Just Right for the sliced and diced images. Looking at these new site, I feel as if the designers have been given a copy of that book and fallen in love. http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/books/killer.html http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/books/killer.html

12 points by mancuso5 17y ago

Nice find, thank you.

Is it simple, clean, and provide a lot of whitespace? Is it based on only a few solid colors and provide an intuitive and quick method for completing its task? If so, I like it. I really buy into the whole design-for-your-product idea. I also really appreciate clean lines and a lot of whitespace. Good contrast, like tasteful transparency, can do a lot to make your site look professional as well. Most importantly, though, your site has to be useable. If you have a 4 MB background image and use MySQL with all the defaults, I don't care what your site looks like, its gonna be too slow for me to use.

nanijoe 17y ago

The designs they are talking about are nice - as magazine covers

davidalln 17y ago

Great find. In general I'm a huge fan of the style, but there are some instances where it is inappropriate, such as for GetSatisfaction. It looks very unprofessional and doesn't really sell their service very well. A website that is trying to get potential business from established companies should employ a linear website that is very easy to follow, not just an unordered conglomeration of text on a blue background.

DTrejo 17y ago

I felt that many of these designs were too busy. I didn't know where to look or pay attention.

qeorge 17y ago
I agree. I really didn't like the sites they chose to showcase. Its a cool style that might work in some cases, but I don't see it becoming mainstream.

jamesbritt 17y ago

I remember when David Siegel's Creating Killer Web Sites came out. It was the bomb. Full of lots of ideas and techniques for creating busy, complex, taken-straight-from-print Web pages that take forever to load. Of course, I didn't quite see it that way as the time; I was thrilled to use the single-pixel hack and get my table spacing Just Right for the sliced and diced images. Looking at these new site, I feel as if the designers have been given a copy of that book and fallen in love. http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/books/killer.html http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/books/killer.html