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Did Twitter steal Scribd's design?

9 points by kimnguyen247 ↗ HN
Did Twitter deliberately steal Scribd's UI? I haven't as yet experience the new Twitter design roll out but I can't stop seeing the similarities between scribd.com and the new twitter.com design.

Compare the pair, I dare.

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faramarz
Not really. I can see the top bar maybe throwing you off.. but everything else is made different, for totally different purposes.

I think twitter is trying to bring the iPad experience to the web. there's similarity there.

kimnguyen247
That's what I meant, the navigation bar is a rip off.

I'll be on Scribd in the mean time to sooth my agonizing wait.

pbhjpbhj
I must be seeing a different site to you two - going to them both now they seem quite different to me. Similarly colour schemes but very far from identical.

http://imgur.com/zxoED.jpg - image of twitter vs scribd on my desktop.

I do website design part-time, incidentally.

malandrew
my man Pablo Picasso said it best:

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."