i stopped using ical for this reason. they sacrificed functionality over ugly looks, which makes the whole program feel slow.. just try navigating 6 months ahead..feels weird right?
I'm sure the 1,200 people who viewed this page were really turned off by that banner as they swiftly clicked through to the industry-leading selection and quality movie trailer links below.
I'm curious how the poster even found that page?? I'm sure it isn't a link from a main source. Not to say that it should exist at all. It's horrendous. Or... is Apple just so far ahead in design that this controversial use of color will soon be considered the epitome of modern technology design?
They've had a page like this for a while – I've joked before that this must be the page they give to interns on their first day.
Aside from it's generally bad color scheme, the code is semantically wrong in several places (unescaped `&`, each poster is a `div` with a `ul` inside of it etc…)
Is it really so bad? I find the banner at the top to be much too large and ...well...it really is bad in general.
But overall the page seems fine. It's a plain white background with a grid of movie posters organized by month. No frills. Can someone comment, for the design challenged, what exactly makes this so terrible? (aside from the banner)
The background gradient is a bit ugly and the bright colours don't really fit in with Apples' typical look and feel.
I don't think it would be considered to be that bad if it was produced by most people. The problem is, Apple are leaders in the field of design and frequently looked up to by designers to produce the very best.
It's an old page — this was used for Summer 2011. It may be inheriting some base styles that are now changed for a more current page. Are people now scouring through unused pages to drum up some shit?
I'm not sure where this is used - the Google link: operator doesn't yield any enlightening results. I know old versions of QuickTime had a "movie trailers" feature but it doesn't appear to exist anymore, and iTunes points somewhere else for its movie trailers.
Kind of reminds me of the intense blue/orange colorizing so many movies and TV shows get these days (Transformers and Fringe are two notorious examples).
What's funny to me is, this looks like the AVERAGE degree of design quality you see in any given widget or feature in Windows 8. All over the place, there are places where you can barely read text in basic features because they chose to put light-colored text on a light-colored background, with both colors being rather ugly. All over the place, there are massive, five or ten-square-inch wastes of screen space for no reason.
I think I can forgive Apple for this one page that nobody will ever see. At least it's not their core OS.
Maybe it's so bad in order to prevent it from accidentally shipping before it's done? If it looked decent they might ship it, but if the gradient looks like orange vomit then they won't? Who knows, maybe all their pages start this way until the content is approved...
(e.g. create new iCal event, command-i to edit, see where DELETE is where SAVE should be, etc...)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4385355/WTF%20%E2%80%94%20Info.png