I first installed SqueezeCenter quite a while. My first reaction upon opening the GUI was "Thank goodness, at last Slim Devices/Logitech have employed a professional GUI designer to produce the web GUI". I was very impressed. For a long, long time it had been a huge source of amazement to me that SlimDevices continued to supply SlimServer with such an incredibly amateurish, shoddy and cheap looking default skin. It just seemed to let the product down so badly.
I ignored SC 7 for a while and have just come back to it, installing the nightly of two days ago. At first I though something had got buggered with the installation, so I reinstalled it entirely from scratch.. deleting all traces of my last installation.... but after reinstalling again it dawned on me... no... this was how it was supposed to be.... in the intervening priod the GUI was becoming "un-designed"! After while I found this thread... The development of the "look" of the SC7 web gui now appears to be heavily influenced by an informal conscensus of (generally) technically orientated SlimDevices forum users who, in my opinion, are have managed to subvert the original elegant design. I think it is a bit unlikely that this forum based approach could achieve a coherant, professional, ergonomic and eye-pleasing design and that it is more likely to make the end result look like a bit of a hotch-potch (as I think it looks now). To do the product justice I think it would be best if the GUI were produced (or the design led) by a dedicated and professional GUI designer (or company). In the same manner that SlimDevices brought in an acclaimed industrial designer (Fred Bould I think it was) who turned the ugly, cheap looking 70s alarm clock Squeezebox 2 into a sleek and polished product (the Squeezebox 3), an experienced and professional GUI designer should be used to design the default web interface. MC -- ModelCitizen It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Transporter > Bryston 4B ST > PMC OB1s SB3 > NAIM NAC 102 > NAIM NAP 180 > Shahinian Arcs http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39957 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
