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

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?

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?

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?

Looked a bit better in 2010.

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

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…)

These are obviously uploaded in error. Look, multiple header images.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/summer/images/summer-movi...

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/images/fall-movie-he... http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/images/fall-movie-he... http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/images/fall-movie-he...

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

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)

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

It's an old page — this was used for Summer 2011. It may be inheriting some base styles that are now changed for a more current page. Are people now scouring through unused pages to drum up some shit?

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

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.

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).

It's even more fascinating when viewed in Firefox.

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

I can't wait till the competition jumps on the bandwagon and copies this awesome design.

Maybe they're A/B testing :)

What's funny to me is, this looks like the AVERAGE degree of design quality you see in any given widget or feature in Windows 8. All over the place, there are places where you can barely read text in basic features because they chose to put light-colored text on a light-colored background, with both colors being rather ugly. All over the place, there are massive, five or ten-square-inch wastes of screen space for no reason.

I think I can forgive Apple for this one page that nobody will ever see. At least it's not their core OS.

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

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

Are they using the Tangerine Dreamscape, or whatever color Pantone declared the color of the year?

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...

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...

That looks like something I would make. >_<