IBM Design Language

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Post by paulojreis » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 11:38 AM UTC

Re: IBM Design Language

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Post by couchwire » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 12:21 PM UTC

As a design language/guide/framework etc, I've spent 5 minutes on that link clicking around and I still don't really know what I'm looking at.

Re: IBM Design Language

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Post by blaze33 » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 12:26 PM UTC

couchwire wrote: post #2

As a design language/guide/framework etc, I've spent 5 minutes on that link clicking around and I still don't really know what I'm looking at.

I'd say it's IBM's response to Google material design. IBM blog announcement: http://www.ibm.com/design/blog-page.shtml?ibm-design-languag...

Re: IBM Design Language

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Post by davidw » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 12:28 PM UTC

There are actually some interesting bits about why things are the way they are, which is useful for someone like me who is not a designer:

http://www.ibm.com/design/language/framework/visual/layout.s...

Re: IBM Design Language

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Post by gima » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 12:34 PM UTC

couchwire wrote: post #2

As a design language/guide/framework etc, I've spent 5 minutes on that link clicking around and I still don't really know what I'm looking at.

It's responsive, has animations when scrolling, pretty color scheme and only small amount of text. Oh, and let's not forget the social buttons. What else can a consumer hope for.

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Re: IBM Design Language

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Post by tempodox » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 12:37 PM UTC

At the very least, a beautiful presentation. And it collects some interesting hints for anyone remotely interested in graphical design. But then it reminds me how this is a field in and of itself, that deserves more professional attention than my own amateurish efforts. When I play around with design, I will do so in my spare time :)

Re: IBM Design Language

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Post by paulftw » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 12:54 PM UTC

looks pretty good for a summer internship project, but nothing more. Why are all these guides uglier than bootstrap?

Re: IBM Design Language

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Post by humpt » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 1:06 PM UTC

paulftw wrote: post #7

looks pretty good for a summer internship project, but nothing more. Why are all these guides uglier than bootstrap?

uglier? to me bootstrap's visual patterns are overused and frankly unoriginal.

Re: IBM Design Language

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Post by wwosik » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 1:17 PM UTC

humpt wrote: post #8

paulftw wrote: post #7

looks pretty good for a summer internship project, but nothing more. Why are all these guides uglier than bootstrap?

uglier? to me bootstrap's visual patterns are overused and frankly unoriginal.

Well, the unoriginality is an advantage to me. Trying to discover yet which of the things is an active button gets tedious.

Re: IBM Design Language

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Post by flixic » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 1:45 PM UTC

From the folder icons in resource zips you can see that they are using Google Drive.

Interesting, considering the size of the corporation.