Why Invest In Good Design?
October 22, 2009 at 10:28 am
Before you click on over to look at The Rose Project, read this. Sadly the Rose Project is not showing itself in all its beauty anymore.
Someone broke the design on the Rose Project – a Brightspark website that won an award at the Irish Web Awards only 3 weeks ago. They got a free resource in to update the site and that someone hasn’t a clue. Know that what you’re looking at now is NOT what we designed. It has been damaged.
Exhibit A:
Home page banner featuring white around the logo (which is on grey background), a banner with centred text (should be left aligned, always), and the image doesn’t fill up the black space or at least grade into black. Finished off by the removal of the ‘donate now’ ribbon on top right. Replaced with address details. The primary objective of this site was to encourage donations, not to share telephone and fax numbers.
Exhibit B:
Featuring the chopped up logo on white background again. And the text under ‘help us kit out..’ is actually white text on grey background. It is not your eyesight, and you are not waiting for the page to fully load.
There are probably more examples, but I can’t go on. It makes me so sad to see something so beautiful destroyed overnight.
Tags: Bad Design
Comments (2 responses)
That is a very sad example of the many that can be found out there. I hope they come to terms to their mistaken approach to cutting costs.
Ugh, I saw this last week, and meant to say something! What an awful tragedy to befall a really gorgeous (and usable) site.
This happens all the time to my client sites, too, and it absolutely kills me.
I can’t even keep writing about this – that’s how strongly it gives me the willies!
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