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Completely off topic and likely to be downvoted (ugh)... but those stock blue buttons and website format is being used more and more for for vaporware type prod

by hoopism 12y ago

Completely off topic and likely to be downvoted (ugh)... but those stock blue buttons and website format is being used more and more for for vaporware type products/projects... I noticed today that I get an immediate negative reaction to seeing this style. Anyone else think bootstrap stock format (is that what this is?) has turned into a negative connotation?

onewaystreet 12y ago
>Anyone else think bootstrap stock format has turned into a negative connotation? Yes, but that isn't the case with Coinbase. Blue is their chosen brand color so they use it everywhere. Bootstrap just happens to also use blue by default so now blue buttons have become synonymous with it.
- hoopism 12y ago
  Interesting note for branding... avoid popular stock framework colors.
  - wuliwong 12y ago
    Yea, that's actually what I was thinking from your comment and the response. Something to consider though, has your target market seen many stock bootstrap sites. Unless you are targeting other developers, chances are they have seen stock bootstrap far less than we have. I've shown a lot of "regular" people sites I spun up using bootstrap with just slight changes and I've actually gotten a lot of comments about how nice it looks. My assumption was that they had no idea what Bootstrap from Twitter was and had seen very few sites that employed it.
wuliwong 12y ago
Are you saying that because of your knee jerk negative reaction to the default bootstrap styles that you think that you might be having a negative feeling about Coinbase's site? That's kind of interesting given that obviously Coinbase has a legitimate design team. I try to be forgiving about the use of bootstrap with the default styles when it is obviously an experiment or new side-project (as I've done it myself more than once) but I think there is a part of me that can't help but have a little negative reaction to it.
ceejayoz 12y ago
> Anyone else think bootstrap stock format (is that what this is?) has turned into a negative connotation? For the very small proportion of the population who both are designer/developers and care about it, perhaps. For the general public, it's no different than the fact that many apps on their computers and smartphones share similar looking UI elements and they really don't care at all.

by hoopism 12y ago

onewaystreet 12y ago

>Anyone else think bootstrap stock format has turned into a negative connotation? Yes, but that isn't the case with Coinbase. Blue is their chosen brand color so they use it everywhere. Bootstrap just happens to also use blue by default so now blue buttons have become synonymous with it.

hoopism 12y ago
Interesting note for branding... avoid popular stock framework colors.
- wuliwong 12y ago
  Yea, that's actually what I was thinking from your comment and the response. Something to consider though, has your target market seen many stock bootstrap sites. Unless you are targeting other developers, chances are they have seen stock bootstrap far less than we have. I've shown a lot of "regular" people sites I spun up using bootstrap with just slight changes and I've actually gotten a lot of comments about how nice it looks. My assumption was that they had no idea what Bootstrap from Twitter was and had seen very few sites that employed it.

wuliwong 12y ago

Are you saying that because of your knee jerk negative reaction to the default bootstrap styles that you think that you might be having a negative feeling about Coinbase's site? That's kind of interesting given that obviously Coinbase has a legitimate design team. I try to be forgiving about the use of bootstrap with the default styles when it is obviously an experiment or new side-project (as I've done it myself more than once) but I think there is a part of me that can't help but have a little negative reaction to it.

ceejayoz 12y ago

> Anyone else think bootstrap stock format (is that what this is?) has turned into a negative connotation? For the very small proportion of the population who both are designer/developers and care about it, perhaps. For the general public, it's no different than the fact that many apps on their computers and smartphones share similar looking UI elements and they really don't care at all.