On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm sure there are good ideas in there --
I'm just reacting to the W
design.
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