Best of Design 2010

Re:Best of Design 2010 by kj12345 on Thursday December 16, 2010 @11:57PM (#2015237)

It's too bad these design awards often highlight sites that don't show much of anything and interfaces that don't do much of anything. There's some nice art there (most of it self-promotional) but there just aren't many design challenges to solve on many of those sites. This is my favorite design of 2010 (though it's been around in lesser forms for a while): http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/live/NBA_20101216_A...

That interface takes all the information about an ongoing basketball game and organizes it visually while making it look appealing. It's also very much _web_ design, with dozens of useful links woven in all over the place. I guess you could say that's technically information architecture or UX or something, but to me it's the core of really valuable design.

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Re:Best of Design 2010 by psadauskas on Friday December 17, 2010 @12:20AM (#2015296)

Yeah, I'd like to see "Best UI/UX of 2010". Not to degrade the work they've done, some of these designs are really nice, but it's more like "art", than something functional.

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Re:Best of Design 2010 by trotsky on Friday December 17, 2010 @12:36AM (#2015338)

agreed. scanning through it was obvious most of it was agency work, much with that distinct corporate design style. The agency sites themselves are usually mis-representative anyway because of the shear amount of effort and polish that gets put into them. Most clients won't be willing to pay for that much work, and often won't get the cherry picked staff assigned to them.

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