MTV.com Relaunch
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- BonSeff0
fuck it
bump everything
- jkosoy0
I'm not a designer, I'm a programmer but I'll say this much for the site:
MTV is lost somewhere between trying to be hip, trying to be underground and trying to be commercial. Think about that...it might be the worst combination of ideals to put together at the same time.
I give the designers an E for effort. But really the issue at hand is the branding MTV has laid on itself.
One thing I do notice: I'm on a G5 and the site uses up 95% of my processor. I'd hate to see it on a slower machine...maybe someone should teach them about delete this.onEnterFrame, or this.onEnterFrame = null, or clearInterval. If the design sucks, at least you can make the thing work right...
- john_kerry0
I did not work on the new mtv.com site and i like jk work
but i am disgusted by jk's post, and the herd of designers following his lead. I bet if he said he loved it, the post on here would be different.
jk does mtv.com effect you that much "I am almost way too tired today to get into this disaster of a site detail by detail and issue by issue."
This sounds like he was up for the site and lost it.
- auricom0
i don't see it that way kerry, this post started this morning and JK didn't post his message till afterwards so no one is following a lead. he stated his opinion and you can either agree or disagree, plain and simple.
the site is bad, and like JK said, i pray that it was client driven. wwft did a good job on the previous site, there was no need for a change, it was simple and carried for a long period of time, which is what good design should do.
i just hope mtv reads this and realize what they have done. just as long as they keep putting more gorgeous chicks on Road Rules though. I've seen Jodi (current cast member) at my mall tons of times.....good lord she's a cutie.
- auricom0
ok i must correct myself, i didn't see the other MTV posts, my bad. this one was started this morning though.
- john_kerry0
Opinions are good, but what happened to grace. Change is inevitable and is always needed.
George bush has no grace, that comment has no grace. Things need to change. Designer egos, give me a break.
- ********0
(bytheway, the last site was NOT clean and easy...)i'm staying neutral on the new site for professional reasons...
I think it's funny to contrast jKristofer's post about mtv(which is about as venomous and hateful as any given political post on here, as jevad would agree)
with his constructive and somewhat positive critique/post earlier this week about the the "human locator"(see ntb, last week)
Apparently that human locator hacked-tag font used as a logotype really had potential compared to this site.JKristofer,I think posting actual critiques instead of corny amtrak jokes/hate spew would do you well.
- syeren0
Has anyone actually found out who designed this yet? Or do you think MTV would have put them under contract?
- DutchBoy0
word up.
it seemed to me JK had read enough of our PVN contributions to be slightly influenced to post it in this way.
i was pleasantly surprised when i read it, since designers always have that 'upon first sight moment', and like save usually says, our first reaction (almost instinctly) is: "i think it's shit!".. or "omg, wow!"..
why do we always need to filter these emotions in well-written polite critiques when we have the chance to vent our very first emotions, following our designers intuitions of what's good and what's bad.
if it's bad upon first sight, it's -usually- crap anyway.
- normal0
_snov:
Could you be any more vague?
They think it probably is stylish in their own respect but as you know style is something that's relative and subjective.
I would personally like to see more negative reviews in the NTB. Being critical for good reason is often a better tool than happy back patting here's a golden coconut type reviews and better for design as a whole.
Let's tear shit up, even if you personally don't have the design chops to back it up at least you're thinking about what's going on as opposed to giving bouyancy to pointless and conceptually void ideas. Which often times albeit 'pretty' to look at fail in delivering any sort of message besides blandness.
Fear is often a better motivator to do better than complacency.
- ribit0
The site just doesnt seem to match the professionalism you see in most MTV production, especially the European MTV (2?)...they have such a rich catalog of visuals they could be leveraging and we get a lot of shades of grey and a staid layout.... and why 2 logos? again, looks amateurish and unfinished.
- rasko40
I appreciate they have a lot of content to deliver but that site is all over the place, I cant even be bothered to try and find shit... not that I have ever looked around on mtv cept for the odd video
- Diaz0
I can't even enter it.
Is the design so heavy that it takes minutes to load?
- mg330
Nice that someone in the NTB posted over there.
- ********0
IS this site for real?? You need a T1 line just to make it past the first page. I have never seen a corporate site set up more horrible.
Yeah we all hate MTV, we all hat TRL and the Real World... but MTV is a HUGE business... to say that it doesn't matter is just fooling your wanna be punk ass- they are influence on pop culture- probably the biggest influence- whether or not you agree with their influence is insignificant- they are a power- and this site is a joke conparably...
- Meeklo0
I dont think there is anything wrong with it, its just a site, its dynamic, adn it looks like mtv, give it a rest people, if you dont like it, go somewhere else..
its mtv, what do you expect?
if you think the site is bad, go grab the magazine..
peace
- mcween0
their old site site set spwaned so many copycats, plus it was still cool... besides the new 'redesign' looks more like a vh1 spin.
jmc
- john_kerry0
puter your off.