Apple.com gets a redesign • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by cantlogintohn » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 6:03 PM UTC

emehrkay wrote: post #64

My ten minute attempt at recreating the animation found on the product page http://jsfiddle.net/5rmLv/

What page is this for? I couldn't find it in the store or individual products. Perhaps its my laggy internet connectioPr

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by btucker » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 6:18 PM UTC

Perhaps it's what you're going for, but accenting the "t" in the wordmark the way you do, is little too "jesus-y" for my tastes. This is especially true of the favicon.

Then again, I know for a lot of folks this isn't necessarily a turn-off.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by mikeleeorg » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 6:22 PM UTC

cookiecaper wrote: post #25

Someone have a before and after? Maybe I just don't spend enough time on apple.com, but this looks the same to me, except maybe a different color on the menu bar.

http://web.archive.org/web/20091027023413/www.apple.com/

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by ja2ke » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 6:27 PM UTC

blahedo wrote: post #72

gry wrote: post #70

Apple often updates their site to reflect treatments in their desktop OS. A lot of the elements here, I expect in Lion. For fun, here's a Flickr set since before time, including now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernelpanic/sets/283374/

It's amazing how fast they converged; the first two (from 1997) look nostalgically mid-90s Web 1.0, but the 1998 homepage is recognisably a forerunner of the current one.

That change is pretty clearly pre- and post-Jobs' return/launch of the iMac. It's kind of crazy that they've maintained such a singular focus and style for so long, especially after the painful decade of constant reinvention and flux that preceded it.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by finemann » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 6:33 PM UTC

The search field looks ugly (Chrome+Ubuntu)

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by mortenjorck » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 6:41 PM UTC

biot wrote: post #9

dirtyhand wrote: post #8

Steve Jobs is gone for a week and this happens...

At least they didn't feel the urge to put laminate flooring as their site background.

And a big 72-point

"Hi! We're Apple. We make technology enjoyable and magical."

set in Museo Slab with a one-pixel chisel-effect.

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by emehrkay » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:31 PM UTC

cantlogintohn wrote: post #79

emehrkay wrote: post #64

My ten minute attempt at recreating the animation found on the product page http://jsfiddle.net/5rmLv/

What page is this for? I couldn't find it in the store or individual products. Perhaps its my laggy internet connectioPr

Check http://www.apple.com/mac/ in a webkit-based browser (safari, chrome, etc) and click applications or server

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by ComputerGuru » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:42 PM UTC

btucker wrote: post #82

Perhaps it's what you're going for, but accenting the "t" in the wordmark the way you do, is little too "jesus-y" for my tastes. This is especially true of the favicon. Then again, I know for a lot of folks this isn't necessarily a turn-off.

Wrong article.. You meant to comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2143977

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by blago » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:55 PM UTC

Designers, turn your copy machines on :-)

Re: Apple.com gets a redesign

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Post by btucker » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 10:36 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #88

btucker wrote: post #82

Perhaps it's what you're going for, but accenting the "t" in the wordmark the way you do, is little too "jesus-y" for my tastes. This is especially true of the favicon. Then again, I know for a lot of folks this isn't necessarily a turn-off.

Wrong article.. You meant to comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2143977

D'oh! Thanks :)