Posts Tagged with ‘design’

This certainly isn’t the most pressing news of the day, but I figured I’d give it a mention anyway, considering how absolutely vital it is for the future of Web 2.0 that the largest social network on the Internet today actually look half presentable.
Yes, yes, if Tom Anderson, co-founder and President of MySpace, goes through with his proposed plan, the social network will by default no longer look…well, like rubbish. Member pages will indeed appear reasonably well structured. Some even [...]

A memo was delivered to the Profy editorial team recently, in which the creators of a new service of the feed-reading/social-bookmarking variety (I don’t know whether to call that a mismatch or a play on redundancy) asked for a review. While I don’t normally take such assignments, I decided to do so, particularly after taking a brief stroll through the website. Here goes.
The service, dubbed Feedest, is, in a word, terrible. Yes, terrible. Go, take a look for yourself. I’m [...]

Yesterday, Digg introduced a new layout. It’s one I welcome wholeheartedly.
Before, the menu at the top was arranged in decent fashion, but was nonetheless a bit too crowded. Categories were “smushed” close together. It wasn’t the prettiest it could be. The newest notch on Digg’s evolutionary timetable, however, is very lovely indeed. Much more so than its ancestor. Without question.
The new arrangement is undoubtedly more user friendly. Whereas one could previously travel to various sectors of the website [...]

Good design isn’t synonymous with MySpace. The default theme is terrible. Tons of custom themes have been produced, but most of them are patently nasty.
You pay a visit to the average MySpace page, and amid the music set to auto play, the completely disjointed layout and the contrast between the ads, the menu at the top, and many of the spaces below often looking so bad it happens to induce laughter, there seems little or no room for improvement. It’s [...]

From March 7th to the 10th, Monterey, California, will become a gathering place for some of the greatest minds on the planet. These dates mark the talks, discussions, and presentations that will comprise TED 2007, a conference which focuses on bringing together innovative and influential people from the technology, entertainment, and design sectors to see how best they can solve the worlds ills.
The reason we mention TED on Profy isn’t solely because it’s a great four days out of the year [...]

Are you a design major? Perhaps you just like creating three dimensions with your mouse. If either of these fit your profile, or you’re simply curious about 3D modeling, the launch of Teapotters occurred just days ago (Feb 1st, to be precise), and you might want to see what it’s about.
Like mine, your first take of Teapotters will be summed up in four words: What. Is. It. For? I mean, does the 3D modeling community share their work? Then [...]

Web 2.0 didn’t come down from the heavens. There was no anointment of a few O’Reilly disciples destined to spread the word. No one preached any secrets. It was evolution, and evolution that further develops something okay into good into better into the best so far.
Eric Meyer over at Thinkvitamin seems to know this well, and he wrote up this thoughtful, perhaps prosaic piece about design. Everyone loves using the latest and greatest app, whether it’s web-based like the Think [...]