WMU recently added some new “feature” stories to their homepage. I hadn’t clicked into one until today… and then my eyes started bleeding. I know gold is an official school color and all but using it as a background is just plain mean to readers. I guess it could have been worse if they put white type on top of it but really I find it painful. And what’s up with that white-to-gold gradient? It makes no sense. I think I could handle the gold if the entire “story” was kept in a white box but fading it like that is absolutely horrible. If you are going to do a gradient, it shouldn’t be that extreme and certainly not that short. All around I can’t stand the “design” of these new pages. I’m using the term design pretty loosely here… I had a very wise professor once tell me there was no such thing as bad design because if it was bad, it wasn’t designed. Perhaps these horrible decisions don’t qualify as design.
