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Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity by Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle has posted an Interesting article on the C.R.A.P good design principle. C.R.A.P stands for Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. I know great acronym. If you have sometime check out his article.

And yes I'm posting this because he uses my site as an example of some good C.R.A.P!

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The contrast in your site design is rather well executed indeed.
On thing that bothers me with your site: The font size of certain elements (e.g. friends, the navigation, …) is too small with Firefox on the Mac. (and yes, the font size setting in the browser in set to 16).

  • Posted by: subw
  • March 14, 2006 8:12 AM

Hi, i stumbled upon this site just because of that article in particular. I like the colors and all, but one thing i didn't like thus making me share mikes opinion only to some extent:

The layout contrasts well, but i couldn't tell which side was for the content and which was for the navigation. I had to click some random links to find out how this design works. Maybe two headlines on each side would do the trick, like "NAV" | "POSTS"

however, maybe its just me :)

  • Posted by: m3nt0r
  • March 15, 2006 2:30 PM

I found my way to this site via that article aswell. I really like your design, even if some text is a bit small in firefox.

  • Posted by: Fredrik W
  • April 19, 2006 9:49 AM
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