04 Apr 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Gotta admit, I love the three wheel bike.

04 Apr 2003 | B said...

You don't think pseudo metal gradient bars and computery fonts are good design?

04 Apr 2003 | fajalar said...

What, you never had a Big Wheel as a kid?

04 Apr 2003 | Tim said...

Yikes, take a look at the code used on the front page....you'll note that there are 120 (!!)...give or take a few... font tags and subsequent closing tags before and after the "SJSU-IDSA Event" header.

Aye yai yai.

That three-wheel bike is definitely cool. If you're site can't be good...at least populate it with...uh...SOME good content ;)

04 Apr 2003 | nathan said...

i love the iconic "mystery meat" navigation.

04 Apr 2003 | brian said...

Nothing good ever came out of San Jose. OK, the taquerias are good.

04 Apr 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Brian,

Do you know the way to ...

Never mind. Sorry. :-)

04 Apr 2003 | Darrel said...

You'd think most architects would have well designed sites as well.

But, on the other hand, an industrial designer is an industrial designer. A graphic designer is a graphic designer, and an architect is an architect. We're all really good at one thing--not necesarily good at the others, but we all *think* we're good at the others. ;o)

04 Apr 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Darrel -- I design software architecture. I KNOW I suck at any other design. I mean worse than the worst.

No one, NO ONE, is as bad at designing the UI for a web site than me. Hands down, no contest.

ARGH!

04 Apr 2003 | Urbanchords said...

darrel - AMEN! Funny story. The other day an architect friend of mine sent me (another architect) link to his office's new web page. He was so confused when I replied back to him, saying that it was bad for using Flash...and some other problems. I sent him the link to 37Signal's manifesto. Today he still confused about it.

I know what good design is, but that doesn't mean I know how to do it. As part of multi-discipline office, I would much rather let the graphic designers do graphic work, so that they would let me do the architecture. I wouldn't want them to do my job.

04 Apr 2003 | David (OnFire4jc) said...

Actually, it's interesting to see how experience in industrial design influenced the site, as with the completing colors and iconic navigation.

What site elements would an architect influence, I wonder?