Re:Ask HN: Who are the top UI designers on the web today?
by dasil003 on Thursday December 10, 2009 @02:00AM
(#987473)
Other than that it is nice work.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Sure, average people think design is purely decorative, but that does not mean that decoration is not a part of design.
What about their site do you find to be poorly designed?
Re:Ask HN: Who are the top UI designers on the web today?
by richcollins on Thursday December 10, 2009 @02:10AM
(#987481)
http://www.metalabdesign.com/blog/
Look at all of the unnecessary lines framing everything on the page. Instead of adding complexity that potentially confuses the user, they should have used whitespace to group elements.
They also use too many colors. Their use of color is distracting -- it does not add value.
Re:Ask HN: Who are the top UI designers on the web today?
by samdk on Thursday December 10, 2009 @03:39AM
(#987550)
I agree. My eyes hit the page and have no idea where I'm supposed to be looking. The white-on-black text that's interspersed with the images is also painful to read.
There are a lot of good and interesting ideas there. The problem, I think is that there are too many, and that leaves the page cluttered and distracting.
"When you're forced to be simple, you're forced to face the real problem. When you can't deliver ornament, you have to deliver substance." -- PG
http://www.metalabdesign.com/about-us/ is full of "cake decoration". Other than that it is nice work.