Web Design Fashions
Just a quick point.
has today changed the design of their site (this may be throughout the BBC, or just here, but I actually can't be bothered to even click on the one solitary link and activate that portion of my memory required to cross reference that information. I am that lazy.)
This seems to happen everywhere these days, and I keep on noticing the same trends.
Everyone's becoming fond of airy, spacious layouts. Big gaps between things, and no harsh lines or borders.
I guess the idea is that it's more friendly and inviting. But to my eyes, it just seems less clear, more vauge and less densely informative.
Bear in mind this is a news site we're talking about.
I don't like this trend. It rarely sits right with me, and it seems particularly contrary to the goal of news institutions (assuming they are what they should be, which, having watched JFK last night, I assume they aren't).
Basically, everything's spread out, no longer delineated, and I have to scroll...scroll I say, to get all the information available to me previously.
This is rubbish. I'm not happy.
Home pages like this, I want to be able to flick my eyes over and know whether there's anything of interest to me in about a second. More detailed viewing should reveal slightly more data, but it should all be increasingly esoteric and useless.
This is how my mind works, this is how I absorb data best, and that is what you are there for internet. For quickly dumping information into my already bulging cranium.
Please stop pumping me with vacuous space.
Now, I'm off to buy some fabric to make my room less spacious (or perhaps more cosy).
Funny that. Too much whiteness on my walls, and I'm going to make a bed cave.
Architecture, interior design, and web design. They all of their fashions, but they are also all about the way we live, the way we understand, the way we relate to our world.
Bloody fascinating when you think about it.
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