7 posts tagged “design”
This one's waay late and everyone's probably had enough of "lists" and "best ofs". Last August I started saving out screenshots of sites that I liked design-wise. Here they are:
1. bravotv.com
2. apple.com/leopard
3. expressionengine.com
4. fortuito.us
5. knoxville.org
6. newyorker.com
7. nymag.com
8. paidcontent.org
9. portfolio.com
10. tpm.com
11. visitcascadia.com
12. walt.allthingsd.com
13. webdesignerwall.com
14. msnbc.com
And that's it. Maybe I'll elaborate on them later so in the meantime... Happy New Year everyone.
Just found this cool little ajax trick on Apple's iPod page: Scroll all the way to the iTunes Free Download box. Click on "Download" and walla! Pop goes a small form box where you can quickly download iTunes. No waiting for an entire page to load.
Apparently, I'm not the only who doesn't like it.
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You can now upload a customized header on vox?! Sweet. Now I'll just have to find the time to design one to satisfy my customization and aesthetic addiction.
I just downloaded the new iTunes 7 at work and amongst the plethora of design changes, one thing struck me very much: The scrollbars are not the standard aqua scrollbars found on mac os x. Historically, design changes that happen in iTunes end up being implemented in the rest of the mac apps like when iTunes lost its brushed metal in favor of a gradient all the iLife apps followed suit. Same with the source list: iTunes went blue and lost the paddings - so followed Mail and other countless apps... So with this scrollbar change does that mean the next version of Mac OS X is gonna lose its aqua and go flat? In my opinion it's kinda boring and almost Windows-y. Thoughts anyone?
Belkin will be coming out with 3 new surge protectors as reported by Gizmodo that's just oozing with designy goodness. Now as for as how they'll stack up to actual usage remains to be seen. I have a pretty horrendous cable setup and if this thing works as good as it looks then I will be on it like white on rice!
Now here's something new... I just noticed that Apple had redesigned their reseller locator page. It now sports some fancy AJAX stuff for the search AND it uses Google maps to display the results! And not being content they even skinned Google maps! Clicking on the pins on the maps gives you a semi-transparent black balloon as opposed to Google's white box.
I really like this implementation a lot since it now only requires one single page to display all the info that you need whereas before you had to type your location on a separate page, get results from a separate page and get more info and a map from a separate page!
It's nice to see Apple taking something as mundane and (most likely) dismissed functionality as this and coming up with something much more efficient and better designed.
Sidenote: The Apple Retail Store site has also been redesigned.
