007 Reasons to Plan
It's been nice having some time off after the assignment although my mind is now actively thinking like a designer most days.
Everywhere I look I see bad design and misuse of colour and comment on it in my head as if I were going redesign it.
Just today a friend of a friend emailed me to show me his new website that he had created himself, as the one I had reasonably quoted him for a couple of weeks ago was too expensive.
He said he had decided to cut costs and have a go himself using free hosting space at www.piczo.com
He asked for my opinion at the wrong time, after all the talks and lectures about what NOT to do when designing a website that we discussed at college I proceeded to relay all this information to him in a shortened form that literally pulled his website to pieces.
Flashing titles, bad navigation, garish colours, inonsistency, large text and... and... ADVERTISING.
Deans Analogy Time:
If you spend the money, take the time and plan, you end up with a Roger Moore or Sean Connery of a website but do it on the cheap and do it quickly ignoring good advice, you end up with a Timothy Dalton or in this case a George Lazenby.
Im looking forward to going back to college next week to get stuck in even though Ive had a virus all week.
posted by Dean @ 5:40 pm
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2 Comments:
How dare you condemn Timothy Dalton just like that! He wasn't that bad. I agree with the George Lazenby comment though.
They both added something to the James Bond role that none of the others have done.
I know what you mean Dean about thinking like a designer half of the time, I'm the same. I keep seeing things, even published things, and thinking "how did they get THAT published?"
I propose we start a movement. The "make design good again" movement.
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