Apple's worst design... Ever (trailers.apple.com)

I'm curious how the poster even found that page?? I'm sure it isn't a link from a main source. Not to say that it should exist at all. It's horrendous. Or... is Apple just so far ahead in design that this controversial use of color will soon be considered the epitome of modern technology design?

It's even more fascinating when viewed in Firefox.

Propositally gaudy. Maybe.

That site uses the same colour scheme as many movie and game posters: http://www.slashfilm.com/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-poster...

Maybe they're A/B testing :)

Now that steve jobs is dead...

Given the collection of 2011 movies, the site probably used to look good in 2011. Maybe some CSS or templated HTML changed out from under it?

That looks like something I would make. >_<

Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave right now.

Bad, but they've had shockers before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_G3

or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Power_Mac_G3_AIO_corrected...

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/ is pretty awful also

They've had a page like this for a while – I've joked before that this must be the page they give to interns on their first day.

Aside from it's generally bad color scheme, the code is semantically wrong in several places (unescaped `&`, each poster is a `div` with a `ul` inside of it etc…)

Maybe it's so bad in order to prevent it from accidentally shipping before it's done? If it looked decent they might ship it, but if the gradient looks like orange vomit then they won't? Who knows, maybe all their pages start this way until the content is approved...

Looked a bit better in 2010.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100304023305/http://trailers.ap...

While ugly, it's not as bad as iCal, where the design actually gets in the way of using the product.

(e.g. create new iCal event, command-i to edit, see where DELETE is where SAVE should be, etc...)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4385355/WTF%20%E2%80%94%20Info.png

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/ is a similarly bad design with recent films - this isn't an unfinished, abandoned, or years-old product.

I'm not sure where this is used - the Google link: operator doesn't yield any enlightening results. I know old versions of QuickTime had a "movie trailers" feature but it doesn't appear to exist anymore, and iTunes points somewhere else for its movie trailers.

Oh. My. God.

Oh. My. God.

Not sure if it's their worst design ever, never the less pretty horrific. The color choices on this page make me cringe.

This is obviously delegated to somebody else. You cannot go from this http://trailers.apple.com/ to that without having some new faces around.

Probably an intern project. Who cares? The awful thermal dissipation of my work Macbook is a worse design than this.

Is it really so bad? I find the banner at the top to be much too large and ...well...it really is bad in general.

But overall the page seems fine. It's a plain white background with a grid of movie posters organized by month. No frills. Can someone comment, for the design challenged, what exactly makes this so terrible? (aside from the banner)

Seriously, someone digs up a link to a remnant of an old page on the Apple site, and this ends up on top of HN as a critique of Apple design?

Is this Reddit?

Amazing this got by Steve Jobs! But I think we're missing that it's a parody of the old movie industry.

Kind of reminds me of the intense blue/orange colorizing so many movies and TV shows get these days (Transformers and Fringe are two notorious examples).