Posts Tagged ‘design’

VRT website goes back in time

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Disclaimer: I am no designer. But when I take a look at the restyled VRT news site, I start to shudder. This is the initial look:

Picture 1

So, a few things that particularly bother me. The banner with the presenter’s faces is far too large. I know what these people look like and it add no value to the page whatsoever. The video selection row is too intrusive, and should be placed on a sub-page, or at least somewhere below. The first thing I like to do is choose a main topic, not watch videos. And the bar is just ugly. The headlines are centered in the page, but they take up too much space. It seems like they want a picture for everything. The main topic selection box is located on the wrong place: too low and on the right. In this country, we read from left to right, top to bottom.

And then there is this (this link might be illegal according to their terms of use ;-) :

As far as I know, you cannot disallow people to link to a page.

Electricity symbol stencil for Omnigraffle

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

I have made a stencil for Omnigraffle that allows one to create the layout for the electricity grid in one’s house. You can get it from its github repository, or just get a zipped version here.

Here’s a screenshot of what the stencil items look like:

Omnigraffle stencil