Ask HN: Who are the top UI designers on the web today?

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.

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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.

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the top UI designers on the web today? by Zev on Thursday December 10, 2009 @02:30AM (#987496)

FWIW, A lot of their color comes from images within a post, not the blog itself (which is quite consistent with its blues).

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the top UI designers on the web today? by unalone on Thursday December 10, 2009 @08:12AM (#987768)

But when their blog design is built to emphasize images rather than text, that turns having those images distract into a design issue with the theme.

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