Who cares about gradients, rounded corners, fancy Flash slideshows or tacky jQuery effects.
Who cares about subtle shadows, elegant typography or grid obsession.
The Big Picture by Boston.com does one thing and it does it well: Amaze us with the power of imagery.
It’s the best proof that proper content does not need anything much to decorate it. Just some proper way of putting it on the screen.
Now we’re talking about emotion-based design. Chec out the latest issue about G20 protests in London.
(Thanks @olrandir for reminding me the coolness of it all.)
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olrandir #2
03.Apr.09
Personally, I think of web design as I do of special effects in movies: both are best when they’re not noticed.
If people leave the cinema-theatre saying things like “those were awesome sfx”, etc., it means they weren’t paying much attention to the rest of the movie, and that the movie didn’t “feel real”. Instead, a good fx-designer would have had the audience believe it was all real, that there’s nothing else the movie could have looked like because this is what it *should* look like.
Similarly, the design in The Boston Globe’s Big Picture is there, but is not noticed: it fulfills its purpose, which is to present the content in the best way possible, and leaves us thinking this is how it *should* be presented.
(Note that I don’t mean to say that design should be strictly utilitarian. I still enjoy movies with over-the-top special effects, but I enjoy movies such as the original “Alien” -that I am convinced could not have been made better in any way, despite its minimal, by today’s standards, reliance on special effects- much more).
Svelon #3
03.Apr.09
Content is everything. Design just boosts it a bit.