Web Design Fashions
Just a quick point.
BBC News has today changed the design of their site (this may be throughout the BBC, or just here, but I actually can’t be bothered to even click on the one solitary link and activate that portion of my memory required to cross reference that information. I am that lazy.)
This seems to happen everywhere these days, and I keep on noticing the same trends.
Everyone’s becoming fond of airy, spacious layouts. Big gaps between things, and no harsh lines or borders.
I guess the idea is that it’s more friendly and inviting. But to my eyes, it just seems less clear, more vauge and less densely informative.
Bear in mind this is a news site we’re talking about.
I don’t like this trend. It rarely sits right with me, and it seems particularly contrary to the goal of news institutions (assuming they are what they should be, which, having watched JFK last night, I assume they aren’t).
Basically, everything’s spread out, no longer delineated, and I have to scroll…scroll I say, to get all the information available to me previously.
This is rubbish. I’m not happy.
Home pages like this, I want to be able to flick my eyes over and know whether there’s anything of interest to me in about a second. More detailed viewing should reveal slightly more data, but it should all be increasingly esoteric and useless.
This is how my mind works, this is how I absorb data best, and that is what you are there for internet. For quickly dumping information into my already bulging cranium.
Please stop pumping me with vacuous space.
Now, I’m off to buy some fabric to make my room less spacious (or perhaps more cosy).
Funny that. Too much whiteness on my walls, and I’m going to make a bed cave.
Architecture, interior design, and web design. They all of their fashions, but they are also all about the way we live, the way we understand, the way we relate to our world.
Bloody fascinating when you think about it.
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I see the same thing, their calling it web 2.0. The gradients, spaces and curves are supposed to look modern. I don’t quite understand it either, being a mapper I admire architecture and I notice the same trends there. I fail to see the practicality of it.
On that note; this page looks excellent.
AlexCrafter
31 March 2008
I was almost getting bored of this theme earlier, and was thinking of a change, but now I won’t.
I think I need to expand on this idea when I’ve got the time, I’m getting really into architecture recently, and I think it would be interesting to look at how all the different types of design end up colliding more than we might think.
Alabaster Crippens
31 March 2008
I don’t see a change in the BBC site…
Am I getting the older version, or I just pay that little attention to details? Not like I frequent the BBC site anyway…
IT looks cute, small and cozy to me.
This is the one I get:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y251/crazyasuka/BBC.png
crazyasuka
1 April 2008
That is odd. That’s definitely the old one. The way I liked it. Cute, small, cosy and informative. Everything there straight away.
I wonder how you’re doing that.
Odd.
Alabaster Crippens
1 April 2008
Aww I don’t want to lose that. I like that design.
Wait. I’m in the Science Section thing (oops, geek alert).
The front page is a bit different.
Is your Science Section like mine or it’s different too.
crazyasuka
1 April 2008
All the same from this angle.
Well, ever so slightly different, but not the old page I know and love.
Bastards.
Alabaster Crippens
1 April 2008
I kinda like it. At least it’s better than the mess they made of the Grauniad.
azahar
1 April 2008