“Am I Hot or Not” for designers and some other stuff.
by Jamie Peterson
Hello and Happy Easter Monday. I have been sitting on a couple interesting websites for a while and finally decided to share them.
“CommandShift3 is like Hot or Not. Except, instead of clicking on hot babes, you click on hot websites.” That pretty much sums it up. If you are not familiar with Hot or Not it was a site that let you play this beautiful game where you were presented with a random picture that someone uploaded of themselves and then like a Roman emperor you could give the thumbs up or thumbs down. Which would either crush their self esteem by lowering their “Hot Rating” or raise it up and boost their low self image temporarily. If I remember correctly the kind people over at FOX also created a short lived reality show based on the concept. But anyways if you are thinking of going into interactive/web development, CommandShift3 is a good diversion if you have time for it.
RedesignMe! is a good site to visit if you want a little inspiration on how everyday things can be improved. The idea behind this site is that people will post items that they believe need to be redesigned and improved and then the community will post suggestions. It really is interesting to see the wide range of ideas that people come up with and a lot of times the most simple ideas are the most effective solutions.
Kuler (pronounced “kuhl-er“, not cooler) and COLOURlovers are my favorite and most useful color resources on the web. Both are basically the same idea of premade swatch libraries with ridiculous names. I always get a laugh out of some the names that I come across. For example I just went to both of the sites and these are real names of sets: “walnut stain”, “Turn up the AC”, “Country Giblets” and “Team Zissou”. Also I highly recommend getting out the color wheel and whenever you find yourself at a hardware store to just grab a bunch of those paint sample chips they give for free.
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And finally a funny one. Design Police offers a number of print offs to “bring bad design to justice!” I hope that I won’t have to post any of these on any of your work.
Thats it. If you guys like these I could add some more to this post later. Thanks for your time.
-Jamie P.