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What's going on with the IBM Sametime Branding?

Category Sametime Branding
With Sametime 8.5.2, many of us believed IBM had a small bug in their code with the login panel not having any kind of graphics or colouring, as can be seen here:

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I'm suprised IBM didn't add the text "This space has been intentionally left blank"

The same cleansing process has now taken place with Sametime Proxy, so this is a conscious design decision by someone.

Before
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After

Which do you think looks better?

Posted by Carl Tyler On 02/22/2012 | Permalink |

Comments

1 - They are de-emphasizing images and image-based text in favor of just text. Cheaper to translate. Since it's boring corporate software, who cares anyway. The drones need no stinkin' fancy designs to look at.

Posted by IBM At 02:16:00 PM On 02/22/2012 | - Website - |

2 - I would say it looks more like Connections 4 in white and yes, I like the simple white version

Posted by Klaus Bild At 01:31:44 AM On 02/23/2012 | - Website - |

3 - I just wish they'd get rid of the legal text on the login screens. It's not necessary, and users should not need to see it.

However, given this is IBM with their legal team, no chance of that.

Posted by Stuart McIntyre At 01:36:36 AM On 02/23/2012 | - Website - |

4 - In our days where UI is king and where iPhone and devices like that set the expectation bar very high, the "white" panes look very poor...

Posted by Michael Bourak At 06:34:12 AM On 02/23/2012 | - Website - |

5 - Prefer the swoosh, even if it's not yellow. Happy with the IBM (insert simplified name here).

Agreed with the "get rid of the legal" comments. Are IBM the only ones who still have this stuff on their welcome screens?

The white is unimaginative and boring.

Posted by Mat Newman At 03:18:50 AM On 02/24/2012 | - Website - |