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Re: Prismatic Team Page

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Post by zinssmeister »

citricsquid wrote: post #5
zinssmeister wrote: post #2

wish the typography was nicer, esp. since they are in the news sector. But those fun-animations are definitely showing off the type of culture they are going for?

Definitely, there is no plausible way that the look of that page is intentional. The text is really messed up, overlapping, poor composition, things don't line up...

I was looking at it on Chrome/Mac. Where it doesn't look messy but I just thought the font/size/weight choice is poor.

Re: Prismatic Team Page

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Post by salimmadjd »

Nicely done! I really like the philosophy behind the prismatic but I don't find myself using it. I've mentioned this several time, their content density is very low. Probably because it was designed on a giant cinema or 27" display and not on laptop.

I would suggest cutting the size of each article smaller and providing me with a context navigation on the side. Like a simple TOC would be fine.

Also I would suggest letting users recommend articles. I know this is all about AI, but probability works in aggregate and machines don't have egos and do not get excited if someone else shares their recommended articles.

Re: Prismatic Team Page

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Post by bradfordcross »

Kique wrote: post #8
bradfordcross wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you folks looking at the site on windows? browser/os?

Definitely doesn't look right on my laptop, using Chrome/Windows 7. http://i.imgur.com/Yt5H9.png

thanks, we've gotten bad about testing on windows lately. the team is growing so we'll be able to do a better job across OS's and on mobile web soon. please excuse the temporary rubbish. :)

Re: Prismatic Team Page

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Post by dougws »

reason wrote: post #10

I don't want to be that guy, but as someone in the medical field, I take issue with OCD being thrown around so casually as a good thing to have. It's a legitimate mental disorder that can cause its sufferers a lot of turmoil. I absolutely get what you guys are going for, and you seem like a fun bunch, but I'd be a bit more sensitive about using terms like that. It'd be like someone saying "We're looking for ridiculou…

Absolutely right. There are plenty of ways of making the same point without invoking a very serious condition that makes a lot of peoples' lives extremely difficult.
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