I'm not so sure, actually.
The W thing blows my brain. "Let's take the WIkipedia wordmark, the strongest branding we have, take the distinctive W, change the font to the same one used by Wordpress, and then drop the rest of the mark." I have no idea where that came from.
Then, once you get into the meat of it, it's just another firm who didn't really do any research into what our product is, does, or how it works. They change the meaning of "History" to be your browsing history (though there's a link to the revision history from the edit mode). There's no language selectors and they do their best to *bury* language selection on www.wikipedia.org.
It's just a mess, really.
The browsing by location is what jumps out at me (surprise!), and it's already being done with the mobile apps and we have efforts to implement maps gadgets.
A more polished and better integrated map of some sort could be feasible..... though not as sure about the integration part from a design standpoint.
Cheers,
Katie
And strangely US-centric, for them being a firm in Lithuania.
On Aug 7, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Howie Fung <
hfung@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I'm sure there are good ideas in there -- I'm just reacting to the W design.
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