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"Designers are not highly paid cake decorators." -- Spencer Murrel "When you're forced to be simple, you're forced to face the real problem. When you can't del
by richcollins 17y ago
"Designers are not highly paid cake decorators." -- Spencer Murrel
"When you're forced to be simple, you're forced to face the real problem. When you can't deliver ornament, you have to deliver substance." -- PG
http://www.metalabdesign.com/about-us/ http://www.metalabdesign.com/about-us/ is full of "cake decoration". Other than that it is nice work.
- dasil003 17y agoOther than that it is nice work. I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Sure, average people think design is purely decorative, but that does not mean that decoration is not a part of design. What about their site do you find to be poorly designed?
- richcollins 17y agohttp://www.metalabdesign.com/blog/ http://www.metalabdesign.com/blog/ Look at all of the unnecessary lines framing everything on the page. Instead of adding complexity that potentially confuses the user, they should have used whitespace to group elements. They also use too many colors. Their use of color is distracting -- it does not add value.
- Zev 17y agoFWIW, A lot of their color comes from images within a post, not the blog itself (which is quite consistent with its blues).
- unalone 17y agoBut when their blog design is built to emphasize images rather than text, that turns having those images distract into a design issue with the theme.
- samdk 17y agoI agree. My eyes hit the page and have no idea where I'm supposed to be looking. The white-on-black text that's interspersed with the images is also painful to read. There are a lot of good and interesting ideas there. The problem, I think is that there are too many, and that leaves the page cluttered and distracting.