MetaFilter posts tagged with webdesign and design

The Incompetence of American Airlines and the fate of Mr. X

tippiedog — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:10:28 -0800

American Airlines fires AA.com designer for reaching out to customer 1.) Graphic designer and blogger has bad experience with AA.com, 2.) Designer mocks up AA.com page design and blogs about it, 3.) AA.com UX designer emails blogger with info about challenges the AA.com web team faces, 4.) Blogger posts UX designer's response (anonymously), 5.) American Airlines figures out who UX designer is and fires him/her for talking. The info that the AA UX designer shared was certainly not flattering to the company, but in my opinion at least, it was not atypical of the challenges in large IT organizations.

Patterns for the Color Blind

netbros — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:44:59 -0800

About 8% of the male population has some sort of color vision deficiency. The color blind are unable to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites. The patterns and examples on We Are Color Blind help developers create websites the color deficient can use with minimal problems. Take a color vision test to see where you stand. 50 facts about color blindness.

MoMA Redux

netbros — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:34:19 -0800

The Museum of Modern Art began working in late 2007 to renovate its Web site substantially for the first time since 2002. It knew that it wouldn’t be just updating a few pieces — it would be entering a whole new era. Earlier this month, the new site launched, and is an almost complete reconstruction of how the museum presents itself online. It features livelier images from its collection and exhibitions, increased use of video and the new interactive calendars and maps.

Pixel Inspiration

netbros — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:27:38 -0800

RGB Garden is a purely design based web design gallery and web designers community featuring beautiful CSS and Flash based websites. They also feature design related articles and downloads. Check out the developer's personal garden while you're at it.

Templates for Rapid Interactive Prototyping

netbros — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:49:01 -0800

This used to be really hard with CSS. Fluid 960 Grid System: Up to 16-column grid design that is flexible and fluid. Created by Stephen Bau, based on the 960 Grid System by Nathan Smith. [previously]

Smashing Magazine Comes Through Again

netbros — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:46:15 -0800

Newspaper Website Design: Trends And Examples. News websites can be intriguing to examine from a design perspective. Regardless of what type of news they cover, they all face the challenge of displaying a huge amount of content on the home page, which creates plenty of layout, usability and navigational challenges for the designer. The lessons that can be learned from examining how news websites address these challenges can be valuable for designers who work with other types of websites, including ones with blog theme designs.

Tiled Background Designer

Dave Faris — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:38:05 -0800

Tiled Background Designer is just a small, useful tool to create patterns. Experiment with pictures, colors, textures and transparency to get best result.

Design Ideas, Web Trends, and Tutorials

netbros — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:29:38 -0800

Web Designer Wall is the personal weblog of Nick La who is N.Design Studio. He talks about design ideas he has, design tutorials from Photoshop to CSS, etc., and trends in modern web design. (see previous)

Best-Designed Sites on the Web by Popular Vote

MattS — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:14:25 -0800

CommandShift3 is like Hot or Not. Except, instead of clicking on hot babes, you click on hot websites. It's actually a pretty nice way to check out good design on the web. It's also the key combo to do a screenshot on a mac.

Best of Web... or so it claims

psmealey — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:20:58 -0800

Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS). What is quality design means to us? Quality Design = Visual + Technical + Creativity. Also, Best of CSS design for 2007.

So what is web design?

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:41:29 -0800

Jeffrey Zeldman on what web design is and isn't.

MakeMyLogoBigger Cream

deern the headlice — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:06:15 -0800

MakeMyLogoBigger Cream is a clinically proven formula which embiggens your logo, gets rid of annoying whitespace, adds SEO magic crystals and reams of powerful marketing text! See Also.

Google for Google's Sake

armoured-ant — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:55:14 -0800

If Google was designed for Google.

The bluish-gray lady

gsteff — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:55:40 -0800

Meet the new New York Times. After five years, the most popular newspaper on the web has gotten a facelift. Joining a recent web design trend towards optimizing for wider screens, they've gone for no fewer than six columns on the front page. And while I wouldn't look for a wiki any time soon, they seem to be giving a nod to the web 2.0 crowd with javascipty scrollable image bars and prominent links to recent video (hello, YouTube) and current rankings of their most popular, most emailed and most blogged articles (hello, Technorati). The new Times Topics aggregate articles (and multimedia) from across the site, along with background info (hello, Wikipedia). All the more impressive, considering the head of their design team (who also redid The Onion!) was hired just three months ago. Of course, Mickey Kaus will still see this as proof that Sulzburger should be fired.

Use flash navigation? You're fucked.

Tlogmer — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:17:02 -0800

Patent squatters Eolas decide to break a significant portion of the websites in the world. (Previously)

Yahoo Opens Up

empath — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:49:27 -0800

Tools for Web Developers. Yahoo gives away some free stuff for people who want to get into Ajax Development. This seems like a nice addition to the other libraries already available.

Making New Fake News

Robot Johnny — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:46:17 -0800

How the Onion Got a Facelift , and in the process offered their full news archives from 1996 to the present available online for free. The Onion A.V. Club also finds a new home.

Follow the Rhinos

oissubke — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:07:06 -0800

Follow the Rhinos Weblog tracking two white Rhinos as they travel next month to the Phoenix Zoo. Nice looking site (via CSS Vault). In related news, poachers have killed about half of the world's population of wild white rhinos in the last year (more here).

Crappy CNN front page art.

machaus — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:19:29 -0800

A collection of the god-awful news-art that CNN churns out for its front page.

Open Source Web Design

oissubke — Fri, 30 May 2003 06:05:44 -0800

Looking for a design for your next website? Open Source Web Design is a site that offers tons of free web design templates that you can take and modify for your own needs.

Layout and design as random as a monkey with a typewriter

Katemonkey — Fri, 30 May 2003 03:12:35 -0800

Looking for a design for your next website? Strange Banana is a generator that randomly produces XHTML transitional, CSS-layout-driven webpages. Hit "refresh" repeatedly, and find that one layout that matches your inner web designer's dream. (Found on Zeldman's Daily Report.)

CSS Zen Garden

riffola — Sat, 10 May 2003 09:53:06 -0800

CSS Zen and the art of ~~motorcycle~~ website maintainance; a stunning demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS–based design.

Visual Relationships at Amazon.com

Argyle — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 15:27:33 -0800

Visual Relationships at Amazon.com - Here's an interesting visual implementation of the Amazon API. It's almost like flipping through books on the shelf. What's next? A 3D bookstore rendered on the Quake engine?

Gone Black?

DragonBoy — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:37:46 -0800

Web sites protest by going black. A little over 100 web sites have bandied together to go black on this international day of protest. Some with interesting art, some with personal notes and others with strong words. Are there other web protests going on that you've heard of? Links?

SBC patents web site navigation

DragonBoy — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 06:37:34 -0800

Evil SBC acts like bully going after small sites with an absurd patent. If you've ever designed a web site with "selectors or tabs that... seem to reside in their own frame or part of the user interface" such as Metafilter's header or Amazon's tabs or c|net's yellow side bar, then your design is in violation of SBC Communication's patent number 5,933,841. Here's the abstract:

A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser displays documents that have been marked with embedded codes that specify the structure of the document. The tags are mapped to correspond to a set of icons. When the icon is selected while browsing a document, the browser will display the section of the structure corresponding to the icon selected, while preserving the constant user interface.

Armed with this patent SBC is going after web sites with a licensing fee of $100,000 to $16,000,000. Will this insanity ever stop?
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