Packaging design spoof
Microsoft designs the iPod package doesn’t just spoof Microsoft. It isn’t that Microsoft’s design skills are particularly bad, it’s that Apple’s are so far above average. This parody applies just as well to how most organizations design their web sites: obfuscate the content by filling up all available space.
I think that this is why WordPress has become so popular compared to other blogging software such as Geeklog: their layouts are designed for people to read, whereas other blogging software seem to have layouts designed to fill up all available space on the screen. (As far as I know, Geeklog is still tied to a three-column format.)
YouTube really ought to require some sort of source information. I’d love to know who made this. I’d also love to be able to save a copy to show to future web designers.
- March 15, 2006: Microsoft spoofed Microsoft
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Looks like there’s an insurgency in Redmond. The spoof was made internally at Microsoft. Now I wonder who leaked it and how deliberate it was?
Looks like you can now download it from Google as well. The quality doesn’t seem as good as it was on YouTube, however.
- Microsoft designs the iPod package
- This is brilliant. It spoofs how most companies would design the iPod’s packaging, compared to how Apple designed it.
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