Filed under: Design, Beta, web 2.0, Humor, Fugly Friday
Fugly Friday: Tiny Designer
Can you believe that the entire Tiny Designer site was made using elements from Tiny Designer? I sure can: it's atrocious. From the glossy sticky notes (why?) to the misappropriated Twitterrific bird at the bottom of the site, everything about Tiny Designer does violence to the entire idea of design. If you're not too stunned by the eyeful of horrors that is the Tiny Designer front page, launch the design gallery and see what other abominations this Frankensite hath wrought.
And all of this is to say nothing of the clunky, stilted user experience of actually attempting to make anything in Tiny Designer. The tool's disorderly UI involves a lot of toolbars stacked on top of one another, and, of course, a lot of gloss. If you thought the dismal results people produced with Tiny Designer were somehow due to user incompetence, you'll change your tune once you try to do anything with it. I'm predicting a long weekend of nightmares about the entire web being rebuilt with Tiny Designer.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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PK said 4:17PM on 7-31-2009
I'd like to some more positive series like "Pretty Friday" instead of "Fugly Friday". We have enough anger on the Internet already, don't we?
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Saint Seminole said 4:59PM on 7-31-2009
Wow. You're right; that site was pretty bad.
@PK: There's a lot of anger on the internet, but most of it's useless, ignorant anger. That's not what this post was about. It's a *good* thing when someone points out fixable mistakes. It's called "criticism," and it's meant to improve things.
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Geir said 6:39PM on 8-01-2009
Actually, Tiny Designer appears to be quite powerful and doesn't deserve the "bashing" it received here despite the web page and less than perfect UI. In the right hands it seems like it can be a useful tool.
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Doug H said 10:53AM on 8-03-2009
What's more interesting is how DS has convinced themselves that bringing us the "worst of" is of some type of value to its readers.
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