[Sigia-l] Google introduces animated icons on homepage

[Eric Reiss]

Somehow, I'm not surprised by any of this. 

Here in Scandinavia, we're particularly keen to produce "clean"
design with lots of white space. Invariably, I hear from colleagues
in Asia (particularly Japan) in response to something we've done,
"Great design. When are you going to finish it?" The suggestion seems
to be that white space is a waste of space.

I don't pretend to fully understand this penchant for clutter, but
there certainly seems to be a sociological factor playing out here.

Er...there's probably more in the SIGIA archives if anyone cares to
look for it.

Cheers,
Eric

FatDUX Copenhagen
www.fatdux.com

---- Original Message ----
From: manu at orangehues.com
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Google introduces animated icons on homepage
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:48:45 +0530

>[quote]
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>Google Inc. is testing a new homepage design in Taiwan and Hong Kong 
>that takes advantage of faster broadband speeds in those markets, 
>one of the company's founders said Thursday.
>[...]
>The site's new design ditches Google's famously clean homepage 
>design, adding a row of icons above the search bar and a row of 
>animated icons below it.
>
>[/quote]
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>http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134854-page,1/article.html
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