The Windows Redesign (please no flame)

[fryke]

There's a good article about how Microsoft let Frog Design (www.frogdesign.com) redesign the logo of Windows. Remember: Frog Design also designed some of Apple's computers and had some good ideas for machine design. The article is at www.osopinion.com ... But also take a look at: http://www.frogdesign.com/gui/microsoft.html

There they tell us themselves. And I think - to some extent - they did a good job.

 

[ulrik]

Oh, and Frog design is close to beeing bankrupt...

at least that's what floats around the net

 

[vanguard]

Originally posted by ulrik
Oh, and Frog design is close to beeing bankrupt...

at least that's what floats around the net

I wonder what you're saying here? That because they did work for msft that they must be doing very well.

I can tell you that doing work for a big company is not always that profitable. I work for Cisco and I've had some exposure to how aggresively they negotiate with their smaller vendors. The small vendor gets a prestigous customer but Cisco gets a very good deal.

It wouldn't surprise me at all to hear that msft works the same way.

Or maybe you're not implying that frog is actually doing well. Maybe you're just passing information along? It's hard to read emotion from text.

 

[ulrik]

This might be limited to germany.

The company a work for recently won a pitch for a web portal. One of the other companies who took part in that pitch was Frog. They had to cancel their offer due to "financial problems". Sure, this doesn't mean that they are bankrupt, as you say, every webcompany at the moment has problems. It's only that some time later I heard that frog might not see the next year.

Please only take this as a rumour! It's not more. Anyhow, it doesn't matter at all, if you ask me, they did a fine job with the new windows logo and the media player skin. I don't really like the overall look of XP. Also, the skin is not my taste, I am more for that "noble" white apple design. But if you read what their goal was, they achieved it 100% IMHO. I didn't want to badmouth Frog here, they do good stuff, I really like their work. I hope that such companies survive the current situation on the web...I mean, just a few months ago, the market leader in Germany - Kabel New Media - closed it's doors, and the other big webdesign company here - Pixelpark - fires 60% of their employees till the end of the year and SAP - you might know them - also said that they are looking to fire the weakest emlpoyees. The market is not very good at the moment, even the big ones have to suffer...regardless of how good they are.

 

[AdmiralAK]

so you mean M$ doesnt make it's own graphics ??? lol now that is a shocker