Slashdot Redesign
Last month Slashdot held a very open-ended competition for a redesign of the long overdue layout. I had initially thought I’d enter but laziness took the best of me and I never completed my design. The winner was Alex Bendicken who created a pretty clean and snazzy design. CmdrTaco estimates that the new design will go live in a couple of days…say goodbye to the eyesore that was the circa 1990’s layout.
The winner of the contest will be receiving a sweet laptop (valued at up to $4000) plus the bragging rights of redesigning one of the world’s most popular tech/geek blogs. Good times. Over the course of the contest I had been hoping Peter Lada’s design would win out, but Alex’s is just as snazzy (with fewer frills) so I’m happy.
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4 Responses to “Slashdot Redesign”
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Wandering Pig Effer
Posted: May 31st, 2006 at 6:56 am1 -
al
Posted: May 31st, 2006 at 7:05 amReply to this comment.That’s cause commander taco told them they couldn’t do anything new … he specified you had to use the same colors, the round sweep in the top left corner, had to use the same icons they’ve been using for topics which had to have a white background, etc. It was totally the wrong way to get a redesign. He should have let people be innovative and see what came out rather than limiting them IMHO.
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Matt
Posted: May 31st, 2006 at 7:26 amReply to this comment.All in all the new design is better than the current no matter which way you slice it.
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Posted: Jun 1st, 2006 at 6:50 pmSummit: The MakaluMedia Blog » Blog Archive » Gauging Reactions to the Slashdot Redesign Reply to this comment.[...] BorkWeb labels Alex’s brainchild “a pretty clean and snazzy design”. [...]
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Hmmmm. Looks very similar to the current crappy layout. I see no snazziness here…