Now here’s a User Interface Detail that made me look: When you right click the logo on the Akismet site, it shows you a dialogue offering you different high resolution versions of the logo. Brilliant! Probably something only designer-types understand!
(via chris glass)
Not really a fan. It’s clever, yes, but it removes a number of other actions I may have wanted to take (e.g. copy link location, open link in new tab, bookmark link).
Jun 14th, 2011 / 4:48 pm
I suppose it depends on the website and the company. Where I work, a large industrial corporation, we end up with the occaissional misuses of our logo that we try to prevent via identity standards in a variety of mediums. Some colleagues have tried to be more tight fisted about who gets high res logo artwork etc, as a response to this, where as I have always thought, someone is going to find a way to use the logo whether you like it or not, so why not make the correct versions easily available. It does hinder some browser functionality, but I think its quite elegant.
Jun 14th, 2011 / 5:09 pm
It’s cute, but not smart. How would you ever know this if you were looking for their logo?
Jun 14th, 2011 / 7:25 pm
@Kai I’m guessing you have never had to hunt logos down. thats the 1st place I go!
For people like myself always hunting for manufacture logos of the product s my company sells this is little feature is AWESOME!
WOW man o man if everyone did this wow what a time saver/headache free day I could have.
Putting this on my to do list so I can save some one else a headache or 2.
Jun 15th, 2011 / 4:03 am
When I click on the SwissMiss logo it leads me to the home page. I believe this is a common and reasonable expectation for at least 99% of your visitors and I see no reason to change this.
Jun 16th, 2011 / 3:33 pm
It doesn’t change that? It’s a right click.
Jun 16th, 2011 / 4:18 pm
Too beautiful. Creativity beyond the limits of thought. I like the set.
Jun 23rd, 2011 / 6:51 am
Nice little feature :)
Jun 28th, 2011 / 1:27 pm
Great! I’m a designer-type ;-)
Jun 29th, 2011 / 3:17 pm
Glad you appreciated this little detail, Tina. We implemented the same thing on WordPress.com as well. Regarding the questions above: we found that no matter how easy we tried to make it to download a high-quality logo, 99% of the time people would just download the logo they saw on the homepage. Since the first thing they try to do is right-click to save it, we thought we’d help things along a bit. Our Mobile apps designer Isaac Keyet developed the solution.
Jul 5th, 2011 / 1:50 am
It’s not nice.. i’d like the DOS-Style back ;)
Nov 1st, 2011 / 12:04 pm