Posts Tagged ‘ design ’
This just in: Amazon has killed off orange and teal. Doubtful that Hollywood will follow suit.* Amazon.com (or is it just Amazon now?) just redesigned the header across their site, along with a few other elements on the home page. Product pages seem untouched, aside from the new header. They’ve stripped almost all the color [ READ MORE ]
Microsoft Touch Mouse promo photo on Amazon.com. Gotta be one of the corniest product photos i’ve ever seen. The captions write themselves. That must be some mouse. PS: i don’t understand why most “premium” mice are still not designed to the shape of a human hand. If it’s made to be “stylish” or ambidextrous, then [ READ MORE ]
This post at 37signals explains how A/B testing revealed that a “long sales letter” format was more successful in producing sign-ups. Marketing copywriter Jeremy Reeves explains on Visual Website Optimizer what the long sales letter is. I have seen these before, but didn’t know it had its own category. I always thought they looked so [ READ MORE ]
The November 1, 2010 Xbox Dashboard update has finally fixed one of my biggest annoyances with the interface: the lack of visible indication for preceding items in lists of tiles. Now, you can see the “tail” of the previous item on the left side of the screen before the selected tile, where previously there was [ READ MORE ]
So i was thinking about digging up some fun stats to do another year-end review “by the numbers”, but my vision was utterly crushed by this guy: The 2008 Feltron Annual Report. Outstanding. Beautiful unity of information and graphic design. If i start now, i might have something almost as stunning by 2010 the time [ READ MORE ]
