print designs doing bad web design
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- ihavenomouth
there's a lot of it about recently.
by bad i mean hard to read/use/navigate:
http://www.bibliothequedesign.co…
http://www.designassembly.org/
even http://www.graphicthoughtfacilit…they should either
a) differ to an expert when web projects come up and stick to what they're good at (choosing paper stocks etc)
b) learn that aesthetics doesn't always have to come before usability, especially not on the net
- ihavenomouth0
hah typo, print designers doing bad web design i meant.
- DEFER to an expert?ItTango
- Nah, QBN just needs an 'Edit' post function for the first 10 minutes after posting somethingihavenomouth
- Grotesque0
I don´t agree... especially not with your examples.
graphicthoughtfacility & bilbliotheque don´t need to show some web design skills on their own site.. their work is the spotlight.
- mimeartist_com0
really bad examples, as they are actually easy to read, use and navigate in my opinion
Design assembly using italics may not work as well if you're on a pc, and its shite aliasing... but on a mac it looks great
- hallelujah0
shmoozability
- TResudek0
You guys really like Bibliotheque's pop-up window with horizontal and vertical scrollbars?
- I assumed it was some sort of off-the-shelf, anti-aesthetic statementhallelujah
- but in the long run, who cares? they'll all change with the new fashion next week anywayhallelujah
- brandelec0
bad examples and huge generalization, i've seen 'web designers' make shittier sites and web designers make really shit print work
- NotByHand0
I don't find any of the 3 examples difficult to read, use, or navigate.
Maybe list a couple of examples of what you consider sites that do these things well - for comparison.
- mimeartist_com0
Whats the problem with the bibliotheque one?
the work is listed alphabetically in the left hand side and in years, and as a new project is added it appears first, hence the horizontal nav is by date order. You click on a project to go to it, and scroll if you want to read more of it, or you can scroll the whole site if you want.
GTF - a simple drop down which when not selected acts as a title for the page, and you don't have the work competing with an ever present navigation... and once you've looked at a project it greys out so you know you've been there.
- ihavenomouth0
I didn't want to spell out what I don't like about them, interested to hear your thoughts first.
But, let's take Design Assembly:
– hard to read... it's all in italic!
– no indication of what is a link and what isn't, i don't want to have to rollover every single line of text to work out what i can click
– custom ui elements for no particular reason (they've totally broken the submit button for example, it doesn't even have a rollover state)"graphicthoughtfacility & bilbliotheque don´t need to show some web design skills on their own site.. their work is the spotlight."
But if the sites were better designed, wouldn't it showcase their work better? Like TResudek said, the scrollbars on the Biblio site are killing it, for example.
- marchelo0
Actually, I've always found print designers to have much stronger design aesthetics/functional sense than web designers. That said, I'm sure the new age designer is more than proficient in both.
- Audria0
I'm guilty of that...
I think.
help?!