Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 14:40:12 +0200 From: Tony <abletony84@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity Message-ID: <CADnJ0kHO%2B5dzNZdBCWjH=nmKK=WROUhm%2Bz0vAsn62cdFB3zzrA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello! As much as I love FreeBSD, I'm a bit alarmed by its webdesign / corporate identity. Since FreeBSD is the world's best OS, I believe it should have a design that reflects this. A design that is so neutral and stripped of any unnecessary details that the user's attention is directed straight on to the content as opposed to how the content looks. A design that you can look at over and over without getting annoyed. The current design is an uneven mix of various styles, and seems more forced than well thought out. First you have the shiny Satanic 3D-lookalike logo (yes, despite what y'all say, it's still Satanic) that might look cool the first few times one looks at it. Now though it's more like "what the hell *is* that thing anyway"? (ref: Tres Logos<http://www.amazon.com/Tres-Logos-Robert-Klanten/dp/3899552679/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332777820&sr=8-1>; ) Then you have a surrounding layout trying to cater to that logo, but fails miserably as it was made by programmers as opposed to people with an actual education in design <http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/>. There is no natural flow <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar_flow>; and the whole thing just comes off as corny <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=corny>; - and this makes us all look bad. I also hear PostgreSQL<http://www.postgresql.org/>is planning to sue FreeBSD for stealing its design. I propose a new, supersimple look for FreeBSD based on Helvetica<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkoX0pEwSCw>. No devil logo, no bells and whistles, just straight forward "FreeBSD" - the world's best operating system. So simple that hardly anything it will go out of fashion and need to be replaced, so simple that it'll remain as current now as it will be a hundred years from now. "Perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away." Tony http://siegelgale.com/ <http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/>; http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/
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