Bad Design At Barcamp

bad design work, were they really all that bad?Maybe they weren't entirely mad

a blog-entation

April

`08

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Madness

IT’S A SKODA!!1!!1

Gud Dezine?

Fail.

So what the heck were they thinking?

o_0

Lets cut one up hey?

•Perhaps they were’nt mad, maybe there was a reason.

•It stands to reason that as we take a lot of care in ensuring everything goes on the screen for a reason, that the original designer did too?

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are needed to see this picture.

You can do this:

and then it goes on

and on

and on

and on

and, well sometimes it just is

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the take home•1 don’t immediately dismiss a design with a client,

even if they start it off. ... At some point some one loved it.

•Sometimes, the madness was perfectly rational at the time so ask yourself, if the owner was rational, why would they make those choices?

•the Customer is always right.... for them.

•and well sometimes.... it’s just better to be quiet and not get into fights.

Challenge!Part 2 A dropped gauntlet

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