Modern design is bad!
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Take a look at this site:
It's very modern and slick, is probably just me, but when customers get to this site, they'll think this company is a joke, I believe a corporate or the showcase of a product that is not related to entertainment should follow the guidelines of a more conservative design, like UPS, Sony, etc.
Stop experimenting and put some attention to the client's customer reactions.
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- unknown0
hey macasoFL, some people love that shit. really, they look at the buttons and say... "hey cooool, i wanna have that effect on my website as well", they look at the images and say "hey, thats really modern and fresh, thats what my website needs.."
sometimes the clients are crappy stupid people. or sometimes they just need a proper education.
- unknown0
I haven't got a problem with it. It's kicks 2A etc in the butt in the fact that it doesn't over do it... me likes (never thought I'd say that)
- unknown0
i never thought you'd say that Engagestudio!
- Danski0
I don't like the left column constantly buggering off for a fag then coming back when it feels like it, but I actually quite like the rest of it.
It at least shows a company that was willing to invest some dollar in it's design.
- lowimpakt0
over enflated wank. There's delivering the message and there shouting in your face while shoving things into your mouth. horrible experience - horrible site.
- unknown0
If the client is happy, you've done your job. For me that site is the website equivalent to the Matrix Reloaded.
- unknown0
The question is would you have ever gone to that site had you not been visiting it to jusdge it on his design merits. And judging on your own aethtic rather than on the actual job it's meant to be doing?
- unknown0
I think it works... they are supposedly an advance technology company attempting to showcase a "techy" attitude. Its clean and simple. Build the same thing with some CSS that takes on the look, attitude, and feel of any other zillion Blogger site and the company has no personality- if you did a search for said type companies- and every other one used the Nelison factor- this is the one you would stop at and actually read.
- ********0
Are we talking modern or contemporary here?
- paulrand0
is the logo a kidney stone?
- lnu0
It's nice, but it sucks that one button has to play it's entire mouseover movie before you can fondle another.
- roman0
All these dark grey sites with slightly-less-dark grey text are troubling for my eyes
- rollergirl0
Those top buttons are so wack.
And I agree w/ Roman - that site is hard to read.
I think that NEWSTODAY is kind of hard to read too.... I always end up highlighting my text so it's white on navy - this grey on grey thing is terrible.
- rollergirl0
Those top buttons are so wack.
And I agree w/ Roman - that site is hard to read.
I think that NEWSTODAY is kind of hard to read too.... I always end up highlighting my text so it's white on navy - this grey on grey thing is terrible.
- abba_cadaver0
If youre having trouble reading the text on Newstoday and even (to a lesser extent) on the site being discussed then you should mess with your brightness and contrast on your monitor. The text and background have more that enough contrast on my screen.
- maw0
I thought the website was for a car racing team or something related to it, not software. I think they over-did the "fast" concept, but I only glanced at the site. Those top nav buttons are fun.
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- ********0
so macasoFL, what you're saying is you'd rather the site be more "conservative" and perhaps dry, to represent professionalism.
My personal tastes don't really enjoy this site either, but I don't think doing what every other corporation is doing is good advice. Most corporations have difficulty designing in a rhetoric that isn't only for the lowest common denominator user, due to polotics. those corporations that do break the mold (so to speak) usually get recognition for it (given that it is "good").
And this my friend is not "modern." It has SOME elements of modernism, but not an overall example of modern I don't think.
my 2 cents
- edgar0
I agree for the most part with macasoFL in that the look and feel of the site as well as the imagery is innapropriate for aftermarmet auto parts software. It seems like designers get fairly comfortable with a style of design and try to aplly it to any project regardless of the product or target market. This layout is used over and over again. Have these people no decency. For shame. Classifying this site as modern just confuses things.
- ********0
Yeah edgar, I agree that designers are often designing for them selves rather then for the content. And also that most deigners develop a style, which is useless.
But macascoFL was grounding the comment on needing to follow other corporate guidelines (esthetic would be more accurate). Which I think is about as uselees as adopting a style based on the designer's taste.
- unknown0
the example sited is not modern, its contemporary. come on kids!