Although we never called it “quiet structure,” the design ideas presented here by Andy Rutledge are very much what we (and by we, I mostly mean Nathan were going for with the recent LJWorld.com redesign. The idea was to let the structural elements (grid, borders, boxes, etc.) serve their role as tools for positioning and establishing hierarchy, but also encourage them to fade into the background and let the content bubble up to the front as much as possible.
Andy uses CNN.com’s recent redesign an example of these same concepts.
Nice piece, Andy.
001 // Ryan // 07.05.2007 // 5:04 PM
That’s precisely the philosophy we’ve been having discussions about internally as we plan a complete (and long overdue) site redesign. We’re waiting until the Ellington install to actually implement anything, though. Which on the one hand means we’re still waiting to break out of our current design, but on the other hand means we get the luxury of inspiration from sites like the new LJWorld and CNN.