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Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

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Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

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Post by anonymoushn »

I really enjoyed the cookie ticker. Here are its full contents: http://pastie.org/8034213

Unfortunately, the site seems to have detected me mucking about (perhaps because I deleted the element containing the annoying flash video?) and redirected me to /_donotsteal.html (which itself was a redirect to /_donotsteal.html) for a while. Now it just serves me a 1-byte file for any URL, except for /_donotsteal.html, which is 4 bytes.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#43

Post by drivers99 »

MartinMcGirk wrote: post #20

It's not just the small players that preserve such excellent retro-design insight. May I introduce the HBO Corporate website: http://www.homeboxoffice.com/

Wow that is a lot like a site I would have made in 1997. (I'm not a web designer, but back then sometimes there was no one else to do it.)

Except that Donald Norman would say that putting directions like "PLEASE NOTE: For GUIDE SERVICES, MEDIA RELATIONS and access to other HBO EXTRANET sites, use the links on the left." means that your user interface is not self-explanatory and should be fixed.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#45

Post by laumars »

anonymoushn wrote: post #42

I really enjoyed the cookie ticker. Here are its full contents: http://pastie.org/8034213 Unfortunately, the site seems to have detected me mucking about (perhaps because I deleted the element containing the annoying flash video?) and redirected me to /_donotsteal.html (which itself was a redirect to /_donotsteal.html) for a while. Now it just serves me a 1-byte file for any URL, except for /_donotsteal.html, which i…

Christ on a bike, there's a lot of weird stuff in there:

    cookie:sexual_orientation=female; - watches how often visitors make irrational decision changes and identifies those people who are schizophrenic as: FEMALE.

    cookie:favourite_biscuit=garibaldi; - can detect missed key-strokes caused by crumbs jamming the user keyboard. Compares results over a long period of time to determine typical biscuit type.

    cookie:favourite_animal_noise=BAAAAA; - monitors any accidentally open audio channels, to determine if the user snorts or chuckles while browsing and then compares the wavelength of the noise with a table of animal sounds.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#46

Post by kryten »

sp8 wrote: post #21

I present you http://www.fabricland.co.uk/ - real shop (with a branch near me) and actually a pretty good place, just with a hideous (and genuine, as far as I can tell) web site.

The customer service is as offensive as the web site. My wife (a regular customer) is always complaining about it. But it's cheap and well stocked.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

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Post by ZirconCode »

retube wrote: post #22
sp8 wrote: post #21

I present you http://www.fabricland.co.uk/ - real shop (with a branch near me) and actually a pretty good place, just with a hideous (and genuine, as far as I can tell) web site.

A quick glance seems to indicate they break every rule of modern web design. It's almost too perfect. Like the spec was to to do the exact oposite of what you're supposed to....

It's titled "New Page 1". It's just so perfect.

Re: Forget flat design. Design in a 1995 style for full impact

#49

Post by laumars »

dualogy wrote: post #8

Aaaand it's down. lingscars.com will never understood why a scary DDoS from a "Hacker site" hit them..

Sadly Lin is now blaming Hacker News for hacking her site with the intention of taking it offline - which is just retarded as:

a) we're legitimate curious visitors (albeit not maybe not customers - but who's to say that some of us wouldn't be converted from window shoppers to buyers - that's kind of the point of websites after all) and

b) her webserver set up to only allow for 500 concurrent connections. Which is just pathetic - particularly given the amount of crap she serves (and thus the countless number of additional server connections each visitor makes to download said content).

I used to think that her site was a mark of a genius; where she deliberately made her site to look amateurish to push the site viral and thus give her huge exposure that most other rentals could only dream of. But then I read her rage tweets[1] and realised that she's just another idiot with an internet connection. Needless to say I'm very disappointed - I liked Lin and her site better when I thought it was designed ironically.

[1] https://twitter.com/LINGsCARS

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