Geeking Out on the Logo • Hacker News Board

Re: Geeking Out on the Logo

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Post by fomojola » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 5:58 AM UTC

qq66 wrote: post #16

Couldn't she get her full name as a Tumblr username?

Its even odder: she did get her full name (http://marissamayer.tumblr.com/). However, it includes a comment that points to http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/ (it says Please see marissamayr.tumblr.com for my blog.). No autoredirect, no link nothing. Quite odd.

Re: Geeking Out on the Logo

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 6:02 AM UTC

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Re: Geeking Out on the Logo

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Post by easytiger » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 6:08 AM UTC

Geeking out. Another phrase that makes me want to bite my arm off.

Re: Geeking Out on the Logo

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Post by MisterBastahrd » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 6:09 AM UTC

bjz_ wrote: post #8

It's great that she's actually using tumblr. It shows that she's likes her product enough to use it herself.

Or that she has to justify a billion dollar purchase to her shareholders and using it is one way to do so.

Re: Geeking Out on the Logo

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Post by anologwintermut » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 6:09 AM UTC

GuiA wrote: post #2

This is a brilliant move by Marissa Mayer. She knows from experience that having the best of the best (not only in engineering- but also in design, marketing, etc.) is necessary for your success in tech. Large tech companies depend on their employee's pet ideas and projects, the fact that they might be well known in some niche for some open source project or blog, and so on. In a way, if you're a large company that n…

Her experience and micromanagement apparently produced a logo that looks like it belongs on a web portal framed by IE6's forward thinking UI and appears to have been designed by someone who just figured out that illustrator could do 3d effects.

So, so much for making users think the company has moved beyond its stagnant products. Which in a lot of ways it has, look at the Yahoo weather app for Android, the design is modern and integrates one of Yahoo's rather under leveraged properties: flickr. That was nice design.

As to signals to the best of the best, this blog post confirms both that she will micro manager you and do design by committee simultaneously (a dubious distinction I don't think even Steve Balmer could achieve). And that's the signal if they like the logo.

Re: Geeking Out on the Logo

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 6:10 AM UTC

fomojola wrote: post #21

qq66 wrote: post #16

Couldn't she get her full name as a Tumblr username?

Its even odder: she did get her full name ( http://marissamayer.tumblr.com/ ). However, it includes a comment that points to http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/ (it says Please see marissamayr.tumblr.com for my blog.). No autoredirect, no link nothing. Quite odd.

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Re: Geeking Out on the Logo

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Post by lifeisstillgood » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 6:11 AM UTC

Well done - for a multi billion dollar company, spending a weekend on your logo is about the right ratio of time to value. Looks good enough to be acceptable, can be reused in all the sub projects. Done, now lets get on with real product improvements.

Move on folks, nothing exciting to see here

Re: Geeking Out on the Logo

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Post by molecule » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 6:11 AM UTC

fomojola wrote: post #21

qq66 wrote: post #16

Couldn't she get her full name as a Tumblr username?

Its even odder: she did get her full name ( http://marissamayer.tumblr.com/ ). However, it includes a comment that points to http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/ (it says Please see marissamayr.tumblr.com for my blog.). No autoredirect, no link nothing. Quite odd.

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Re: Geeking Out on the Logo

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Post by johnohara » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 6:12 AM UTC

Focusing on the logo is a detraction from the vast array of truly positive changes that have been implemented over the past 6 months -- by some very talented teams I might add.

No question the whole site is on the move. To where or what, I dunno. But my interest is piqued and the overall experience feels tighter. If that makes sense.

Re: Geeking Out on the Logo

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Post by BIair » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 6:12 AM UTC

It's obvious they missed the easiest way to simplify and modernize the logo... Drop the exclamation mark! Remember when Marissa had the TM removed? Nothing screams 90s more than an exclamation.

It takes courage to innovate. Ford, "They wanted a faster horse". Jobs, "They wanted a phone with a physical keyboard". Yahoo? The "new" logo doesn't signify that anything has changed.