Apple's worst design... Ever(trailers.apple.com)

122 pointsby hhastings14 anni fa45 comments

trailers.apple.com

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/summer/

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/, too

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While ugly, it's not as bad as iCal, where the design actually gets in the way of using the product.

(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

fady14 anni fa

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?

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rickmb14 anni fa

Seriously, someone digs up a link to a remnant of an old page on the Apple site, and this ends up on top of HN as a critique of Apple design?

Is this Reddit?

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panic14 anni fa

Given the collection of 2011 movies, the site probably used to look good in 2011. Maybe some CSS or templated HTML changed out from under it?

joenathan14 anni fa

Did the banner magically change too when 2012 rolled around?

schraeds14 anni fa

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.

pedalpete14 anni fa

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?

hhastings14 anni fa

Stumbled into it on twitter by @noah_halter, not sure where he found it.

And... my bet says a bright orange to dark green gradient will never be in style.

hhastings14 anni fa

It's listed on google too, https://www.google.com/search?ix=hca&sourceid=chrome&...

nilchameleons14 anni fa

I would imagine this is far from the finished product, considering it's a summer movies page and it is currently January..

Zephyrial14 anni fa

You may be right, but I'm guessing it's actually just outdated - those are all last summer's movies.

jacobbijani14 anni fa

hhastings14 anni fa

I checked out a few of the titles, and from the sampling I took, they were all 2011 releases.

ashleyw14 anni fa

It showcases movies released in 2011.

chaz14 anni fa

Looked a bit better in 2010.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100304023305/http://trailers.ap...

joeybaker14 anni fa

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…)

jstsch14 anni fa

These are obviously uploaded in error. Look, multiple header images.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/summer/images/summer-movi...

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/images/fall-movie-he... http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/images/fall-movie-he... http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/images/fall-movie-he...

getsat14 anni fa

That site uses the same colour scheme as many movie and game posters: http://www.slashfilm.com/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-poster...

hhastings14 anni fa

Very good point.

I think this is very poorly executed, though: http://f.cl.ly/items/0J460z2l423e0N180d2l/Screen%20shot%2020...

grannyg00se14 anni fa

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)

monjaro14 anni fa

For me, it has an orange to gray background gradient, not a white background.

hellweaver66614 anni fa

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.

hhastings14 anni fa

Chrome has a large color gradient. Firefox has a white background.

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shaka88114 anni fa

Probably an intern project. Who cares? The awful thermal dissipation of my work Macbook is a worse design than this.

danielha14 anni fa

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?

why-el14 anni fa

This is obviously delegated to somebody else. You cannot go from this http://trailers.apple.com/ to that without having some new faces around.

bri3d14 anni fa

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/ is a similarly bad design with recent films - this isn't an unfinished, abandoned, or years-old product.

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.

aw3c214 anni fa

What is bad about that? I think it looks quite good and it is functional.

alanh14 anni fa

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).

daa14 anni fa

It's even more fascinating when viewed in Firefox.

alexwolfe14 anni fa

Not sure if it's their worst design ever, never the less pretty horrific. The color choices on this page make me cringe.

jamesu14 anni fa

I can't wait till the competition jumps on the bandwagon and copies this awesome design.

VuongN14 anni fa

Maybe they're A/B testing :)

Bud14 anni fa

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.

johnbatch14 anni fa

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/ is pretty awful also

artursapek14 anni fa

Oh my god- this one makes it look like it was intentional and not a mistake

ugh14 anni fa

Why?

It's not great, it's decent, but it's certainly not awful.

mathattack14 anni fa

Amazing this got by Steve Jobs! But I think we're missing that it's a parody of the old movie industry.

diggum14 anni fa

Are they using the Tangerine Dreamscape, or whatever color Pantone declared the color of the year?

tezza14 anni fa

Bad, but they've had shockers before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_G3

or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Power_Mac_G3_AIO_corrected...

peterarmstrong14 anni fa

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...

adam_freidin14 anni fa

That looks like something I would make. >_<

mvip14 anni fa

Oh. My. God.

brevityness14 anni fa

Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave right now.

hcarvalhoalves14 anni fa

Propositally gaudy. Maybe.

tfh14 anni fa

Now that steve jobs is dead...