Timelapse: Designing a new website
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Timelapse: Designing a new website
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#2This video is really cool, designing looks so much cooler than coding when time-lapsed :) -- then again, coding looks pretty awesome in movies like Hackers.
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#4It's fun to watch something like this, but it looks like he copied & pasted a lot of elements from other websites into his design. Directly lifting UI elements & photos from other websites and dropping them into your site is a big negative in my mind.
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#5It's fun to watch something like this, but it looks like he copied & pasted a lot of elements from other websites into his design. Directly lifting UI elements & photos from other websites and dropping them into your site is a big negative in my mind.
I didn't see any photos that didn't come from istockphoto. The logos were his customers logos.
Most of the UI elements seem to come from other PSDs of stuff he's already created.
Inspiration from Basecamp and it looks like some Flickr screenshots... totally normal.
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#6For anyone wondering, the song is In Motion from The Social Network soundtrack, which by the way, i find to be excellent coding music.
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#7Anyone else catch him reading HN right before 6:30? :)
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#8It's fun to watch something like this, but it looks like he copied & pasted a lot of elements from other websites into his design. Directly lifting UI elements & photos from other websites and dropping them into your site is a big negative in my mind.
I've seen A LOT of designers works like that, nothing unusual or evil. List of reference elements for inspiration from all over the place, crude placement and re-work/redesign/throwing out/making it all work together in the end. It's actually quite similar to matte painting if you think about it.
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#9It's fun to watch something like this, but it looks like he copied & pasted a lot of elements from other websites into his design. Directly lifting UI elements & photos from other websites and dropping them into your site is a big negative in my mind.
but it looks like he copied & pasted a lot of elements from other websites into his design
he was using them as inspiration, i don't think he actually copied any ui elements (unsure about where he got the photographs, but it's common practice to pay a royalty fee or use free if it's not required). as an example, many good designers will look at apple's design elements in mac os x or iphone os. you'll hear steve jobs got a lot of his inspiration from other sources too. that's how design works; you'll take something that's good right now and you make it better.
"The inspiration for the type of plastic case (a first for computers) for the Apple II came from Jobs seeing a Cuisinart food processor in the kitchen section of Macy’s.
Additionally, Jobs showed up at a design meeting for the Quicktime software product with a brochure from Hewlett-Packard with the H-P logo in a brushed metal.
The brushed metal ended up being adopted in across much of Apple’s software and some high-end hardware including the Safari Web browser and iCal calendar." Leader Kahney, Inside Steve's Brain
Re: Timelapse: Designing a new website
#10It's fun to watch something like this, but it looks like he copied & pasted a lot of elements from other websites into his design. Directly lifting UI elements & photos from other websites and dropping them into your site is a big negative in my mind.
but it looks like he copied & pasted a lot of elements from other websites into his design he was using them as inspiration, i don't think he actually copied any ui elements (unsure about where he got the photographs, but it's common practice to pay a royalty fee or use free if it's not required). as an example, many good designers will look at apple's design elements in mac os x or iphone os. you'll hear steve jobs…
The photographs are from actual Guestlist events.