I don’t like the effect that “Web 2.0” is having on appearances of websites, namely logos. There’s no shortage of logo competitions out there, trying to take existing, well established logos and reinvent them with a new font, reflections, and a glazed look. The latest that I’ve seen is Cisco — their new logo has less balls than the old one. I think people that design this stuff are the same sort of people who get way, way excited when an application has a new icon. I’ve seen a number of links and comments on digg that don’t really focus on the fact the application has a had a number of improvements (and breaks things), but “OMFG ITUNES HAS A NEW BLUE ICON!@#!” wha? Does the rest of the world really care that much? I never see my desktop or dock (which is also minimized and auto-hide), therefore I never see those icons.
get off my lawn too.
