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Stinking powerpoint.

April 24, 2000 by Michael Boyle

The brain-deadest app going. But it works, I grudgingly admit, and is pretty much a standard. All this for a big presentation tomorrow in Philadelphia. So – not much blogging today. I did, however, read that Roger Black hilarity.

On one hand, he’s right – there is a lot of crappy design around. But at the same time, it’s terribly obvious he hasn’t looked hard for the gems. Of which there are many. Or – even worse – it may be that his aesthetic and design sense are so entrenched in non-wired worlds that he doesn’t really understand modern web design.

And that stuff about “the Internet is not a venue for storytelling” is just sad.

Tags: Web Design

The designers at work

April 7, 2000 by Michael Boyle

do like to work with me, notwithstanding my putting my grubby mitts on their monitor screens. Not being a designer myself, I suggest, only, I don’t tell. I rely on their expertise.

Designer (by ICQ): Michael, how’s this mockup look?
Me: OK – I’ll come to your desk.
I go to his/her desk.
Designer: So I think I’ve added everything we need – what do you think?
Me: It’s a great start. But what do you think about moving this [smooshes finger on monitor, pointing] over here [smooshes finger on monitor, pointing], making that [smooshes finger on monitor, pointing] more curvy; ditching this [smooshes finger on monitor, pointing] frame entirely, and making…
Stricken look on Designer’s face.
Me: Oh. Sorry. I just got fingerprints all over your monitor, didn’t I? Oops.
[inspired by yesterday’s Harrumph! entry.]

Tags: Personal, Web Design

Now Wallpaper*

April 2, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Wallpaper* they didn’t have a website at all for the longest time, and I’m pretty sure that they looked at the web pretty disdainfully in terms of design etc. But check out their site. It’s not even launched and it’s shitty. It looks exactly like the old webzine Scroll which was produced in 1997 by Behavior New Media here in Montreal – and that no one ever read – mostly (in my opinion) cause the interface, award-winner though it was – was practically unusable.

Tags: Media, Web Design

Another chicken:

March 21, 2000 by Michael Boyle

sock-monkey.com. Confused? I think so.

Tags: Funny, Web Design

Fowl as a design element:

March 21, 2000 by Michael Boyle

There’s a chicken on this page from Grey Advertising. How many sites use chickens?

Tags: Web Design

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