In case you didn’t know, MSNBC.com has recently been redesigned. I’m going to leave the qualitative design critique to the designers, but I thought I’d point out a few glitches that speak to a larger problem.
All my technical explanations are inferences — I’m lazy and I don’t feel like digging through the site’s multiple style sheets.
I totally forgot about this… I am “In the Spotlight” this month over at Area of Design. The focus is on Pirated Sites.
Shaun Inman has just launched the website for More, a graphic design and PR firm in Baltimore. The site is an exercise in minimalism and graceful web design, and I adore the nav scheme — that is to say, I adore that the site is so lean that all the content is gracefully presented in one page. Less is more in this case, to be slightly trite.
Some people find fault with the navigation scheme in that, in Safari and IE, using the nav breaks the nav button by not appending the anchor location of the info you’re jumping to at the end of the URL in the address bar. I’d guess this is a simple JS tweak to make sure the info makes it into the address bar; I wish I had time to look into it (because it would be fun, and I’m a dork like that), but maybe Shaun will at some point.