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Apple's worst design... Ever

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Re: Apple's worst design... Ever

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Post by joeybaker »

They've had a page like this for a while – I've joked before that this must be the page they give to interns on their first day.

Aside from it's generally bad color scheme, the code is semantically wrong in several places (unescaped `&`, each poster is a `div` with a `ul` inside of it etc…)

Re: Apple's worst design... Ever

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Post by peterarmstrong »

Maybe it's so bad in order to prevent it from accidentally shipping before it's done? If it looked decent they might ship it, but if the gradient looks like orange vomit then they won't? Who knows, maybe all their pages start this way until the content is approved...

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Post by bri3d »

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/ is a similarly bad design with recent films - this isn't an unfinished, abandoned, or years-old product.

I'm not sure where this is used - the Google link: operator doesn't yield any enlightening results. I know old versions of QuickTime had a "movie trailers" feature but it doesn't appear to exist anymore, and iTunes points somewhere else for its movie trailers.

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Post by fady »

subpixel wrote: post #24

While ugly, it's not as bad as iCal, where the design actually gets in the way of using the product. (e.g. create new iCal event, command-i to edit, see where DELETE is where SAVE should be, etc...) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4385355/WTF%20%E2%80%94%20Info.png

i stopped using ical for this reason. they sacrificed functionality over ugly looks, which makes the whole program feel slow.. just try navigating 6 months ahead..feels weird right?
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