Wikipedia Redesigned
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- cannonball19780
Typographically speaking, the W they chose as the logo is awkward and not really ideal as a standalone grapheme. It belongs more as part of something else.
From a branding perspective I saw little that addresses the nature of information, or the desire to become a public resource.
- were you really pleased you got to use the word 'grapheme' ?fadein11
- yescannonball1978
- animatedgif0
It's also worth keeping in mind that making a bigger search box on wikipedia isn't going to make the wikipedia search function work better.
At the minute Google is better at searching wikipedia than wikipedia is.
A huge feature that works badly is still a bad feature
- I always considered Wikipedia entries more of a Google search result than anything else actuallymonospaced
- animatedgif0
^ Best bit about Wikipedia. Redesign is a complete failure without this
- benfal990
WANT!
- clearThoughts0
It shows the same old site for me.
- autoflavour0
looks like google and vimeo had a baby.. and it was called wiki
- Nathan_Adams0
Why the hell did they use a W flipped upside down for MetaWiki, instead of an actual M? Agreed with Brains - good on ideas, lacking in execution.
- monospaced0
Nice find. The obtrusively large header and footer design bothers me, but other than that, this is a nice project and exploration.
- Yeah, jumbo sized headers and spacing. It's like it was designed for iPad.nikdaum
- ukit20
Starts off with some interesting ideas, but the actual UI looks kind of clunky. What's with the huge search box?
- inteliboy0
The branding ideas are nice, though they lost me at that rainbow line diagram logo thing. The overall pitch needs more restraint... a bit of designer wank going on here.
Agreed that the UI is clunky. Wikipedia should just be basic basic CSS with no overly designed nonsense hanging around. This is one of the reasons why wiki, google, facebook (initially) and even sites like reddit have become so popular.
That said - I always enjoy looking at stuff like this. It's great to see designers tackle faux-projects just for the hell of it.
- tOki0
I was looking at this yesterday, interesting stuff indeed.
I also felt that the execution of some parts was a bit lacking but overall quite a solid attempt.
- Amicus0
- Jmagine all the people..ukit2
- Jiving in the worjdtOki
- J like it!nb
- JOLernexbcn
- ThJs probably Jsn't the dJscussJon they wanted...MrT
- Saw this site discussed on 4chan and even they called them out on the J/Ianimatedgif
- who's Iimmy Wales?set
- godt J hate that typeface.fresnobob
- DamJt, I was going to comment on the I/J thing!fooler
- fourth0
yeah I was wondering about that typeface selection myself...
- its their font they're presenting with, it's not used in their comps.doesnotexist
- jaylarson0
i entered this for the site to redesign:
http://www.wikipediaredefined.co…
- i_monk0
It's been redesigned with tablets in mind, which means it wastes as much space as possible so things are big enough and spaced out enough for fingers to poke. Design-for-tablets has to stop.
There are some good ideas here though.
The WikiMedia logo is not one of them, however.
- "Design-for-tablets has to stop."
Alleluia.mikotondria3 - why must it stop? got to stop people buying them first.MrT
- RESPONSIVEanimatedgif
- "Design-for-tablets has to stop."