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Google Docs took Valentine's Day way too far
Google Docs adapted their web layout to be all pink and heart-y and cute for Valentine’s Day. It makes me want to vomit. Next time, just do a cute logo and call it a day. Srsly.
A hidden design surprise on Obama's website
Todd Zeigler noted this in an analysis of the evolution of Obama’s website earlier this month, first twittered by Patrick Ruffini, but I still think it’s really cool and worth noting again.
Obama’s website design is based on a big background image, with the campaign logo and an ambient border around the content. When you look at the image itself, taking away the content, you see a nice little surprise: an eagle with the campaign’s “O” and the American flag. Very few people will see this, but it’s a classy touch anyway.
My design portfolio
Hey all, in celebration of Columbus Day, I re-did my design portfolio. You can click here, or you can click the big yellow ‘design’ in the top menu. Your call.
CNN's ugly politics design: Why you should stick with a single wrapper on a website.
Today CNN debuted a new, separate design for articles in its politics section. Not only is it a bad idea, it’s ugly to boot.
CNN.com is trying to be hip news 2.0 since its relaunch earlier in the summer, and up til now it’s been pretty successful. Why does CNN feel the need to wrap politics articles in a black header? I’m surprised they didn’t have reflected text underneath.
The problem here is that this header is not appropriate for this article. I think CNN is trying to be slick and sleek, but it doesn’t make sense to wrap an article about a plane crash in the CNN politics design.
I don’t want to feel like I’m on a different website than CNN. I come to CNN because they generally keep it simple. What I don’t want is CNN to try to separate its politics content from any other content. Sometimes I click on a political article, and sometimes I want to read what random people think about Britney Spears. Either way, I want a consistent design. CNN should drop this experiment.
Unfortunately, I don’t do that in my work. Pot, kettle, etc.
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