Bloomberg.com
What’s going on at Bloomberg.com? They have a completely new design that breaks a few very long held design conventions. I like it.
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I hate it.
The previous Comment was posted on August 16, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I love it.
The previous Comment was posted on August 16, 2007 at 4:58 pm
[...] I like the orange, except not for Bloomberg. What the hell? Halloween? It’s so off-beat from the normal course of news site design that it almost makes it cool. Not quite though. Chris likes it though (thanks for the link). [...]
The previous Pingback was posted on August 16, 2007 at 5:30 pm
With so many financial news options available on the web, I can see the desire to want to differentiate from each other. I give management credit for doing something to break out the trend and I can see using color as a brand, but I think the orange on black is just too damned hard to read. I think if I were them I would have given users, who are likely more often than not repeat visitors, the option of a second color palette/skin to choose from.
The previous Comment was posted on August 16, 2007 at 6:37 pm
yeah, not liking this one….
The previous Comment was posted on August 16, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Very interesting!!
The previous Comment was posted on August 16, 2007 at 9:05 pm
I agree with Aaron, too much visual tension for me to read financial data on a black background. Interesting they should do this in the wake of this article on their terminal redesign.
http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/goods/gadgets/2007/07/09/Bloomberg-Terminals-Design
see the revamps here: (IDEO wins IMO)
http://www.portfolio.com/infographics/2007/06/terminals
The previous Comment was posted on August 16, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Hate the orange on black.
Total yuck
The previous Comment was posted on August 17, 2007 at 2:15 am
Wow I can’t believe they went with black, I think that’s pretty exciting!
The previous Comment was posted on August 17, 2007 at 5:41 am
I can honestly say, this is a visual mess. it does look like Halloween. Maybe they should consider selling pumpkins on it along with showing financial data.
The previous Comment was posted on August 17, 2007 at 6:41 am
I must admit, a website with 187 validation errors really makes me proud to be web designer..
The previous Comment was posted on August 18, 2007 at 11:17 am
It is refreshingly obvious how few of your readers are involved in finance. Anyone that has ever used a Bloomberg application will immediately recognize the light-font-on-black-screen theme from their ubiquitous terminal screens. Cute analysis though.
The previous Comment was posted on September 1, 2007 at 7:04 am