Ask HN: Your favorite web application design/UI?

Post by BerislavLopac » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 9:38 PM UTC

wccrawford wrote: post #9

hkuo wrote: post #4

Perhaps not appropriate for your app, but who knows, maybe? But this is my favorite UI that I've seen in a very long time. Just click on any of the content boxes. http://spacecollective.org/projects/The-Total-Library

That site has one of my pet peeves. At the top, there is a Flash element. Wanting to see the full site design, I allowed Flash to run on the page. What did I see? Text. Just text. At worst, it would have taken a PNG to produce the same thing, but they decided to create an entire Flash app devoted to displaying some text.

Post by MrAlmostWrong » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 9:50 PM UTC

Post by joshuacc » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 9:53 PM UTC

BerislavLopac wrote: post #11

wccrawford wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That site has one of my pet peeves. At the top, there is a Flash element. Wanting to see the full site design, I allowed Flash to run on the page. What did I see? Text. Just text. At worst, it would have taken a PNG to produce the same thing, but they decided to create an entire Flash app devoted to displaying some text.

Actually I think this is one of those Flash-based font substitution tricks. Although I wonder why anyone would still use that now cufon is available...

Post by ashitvora » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 9:58 PM UTC

Post by krelian » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 10:06 PM UTC

fjabre wrote: post #12

Love the Alfred app design. I bookmarked it when it first came out. It inspired me to do a very logo centric design for my web app: http://www.HobsonFiles.com So did http://mailchimp.com . I've always been impressed by how much personality their web app has while actually doing something very useful.