Pattern repositories are a nice and useful – for once – trend. What are they? In their basic form, they are just galleries with screenshots coming from different sites, showcasing the different approaches in, let’s say, search boxes or contact forms.
I’ve followed almost all pattern repositories that emerged during the last few months – most of those though had trouble updating with the latest site releases and became stale after a while.
Since then, I’ve relied mostly to Flickr for finding inspiration for specific web design modules, until I thought oh what the eff, I’ll post my tids’n'bits from here and there too. Be sure to check them out, I’ll try and update it as much as I can.
Partners to the crime: Paparazzi! for the full screen site screenshots, Skitch for the insta-uploading to Flickr.
P.S. For something more substantial than my mediocre attempts, try out Pattern Tap, the latest and greatest in patterns sharing.
pattern tap, pattern, repositories, ux
You missed WGSS didn’t you? You didn’t? Nice.
‘Cause it’s here again. I couldn’t let this roam free in the ‘nets.
For those not understanding greek or those that refuse to reopen the above page in a tab, it’s an online advertising firm or something, offering marketing solutions even to bloggers. Would you let those people near your blog? I wouldn’t even let them touch my laptop bag.
So without further ado, let’s count the ways this little gem here sucks:
- All the text in this site – and I mean all – is an image. With a hover effect. That makes the text more pale on hovering.
- If you look a bit at the code, you see that everything is probably generated by Macromedia Dreamweaver. Which is bad, bad, bad. DW is a great editor and can be a pretty nice WYSIWYG application, but Christ, no.
- You cannot really say what’s linkable and what’s not on navigation. Everything is white – no underline or difference in colour or size.
- There’s a strange effect: if you click on the text of a page, it automatically redirects you to the next one. Pure class.
<td colspan="16" rowspan="14">. ‘Nuff said.
Well, as you see, somewhere along the way these guys messed it up. This is usually the moment when I advise people to just switch off the PC and head for a walk, or paint, or learn chinese.
I do that to myself too, all the time.
wgss, greek, sites, suck, ad-network
I really, really like Last.fm new design. It’s so clean and organized for once – using the old interface, I could not really tell what was where and always found myself clicking here and there to get the pages I wanted.
But the current one, ah! So usable, so pretty, so clean, so new.
It has its rough edges (all redesigns have at first) but it’s a nice change for one of my favourite social sites.
And the people who worked on it do not – in any way – deserve the shit they get thrown at since they launched the new design.
Really, people. You, Last.fm users out there. Especially the freebies. What’s wrong with you? What do you think is SO fundamentally wrong with the new design?
Jeez.
See my point now?
last.fm, redesign
