Our book:
Defensive Design for the Web: How To Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points
Available Now ($16.99)
Most Popular (last 15 days)
Looking for old posts?
37signals Mailing List
37signals Services
Syndicate
BIG is in
02 Feb 2005 by Jason Fried
Is there any doubt that BIG is in? The signup button for Amazon Prime puts that question to rest.
10 comments so far (Post a Comment)
02 Feb 2005 | brian b said...
people are finally realizing it is harder to read small stuff on the ever-growing screen resolutions people are using.
02 Feb 2005 | Casey Gollan said...
kind of like the HUGE form to hear about writeboard. I really like how that looks!
02 Feb 2005 | Casey Gollan said...
P.S. when will we hear more about writeboard?
02 Feb 2005 | AM said...
My eyes! Arrghh!
02 Feb 2005 | Michel said...
Huge and ugly, in Amazon's case.
02 Feb 2005 | Jamie said...
I agree with the first comment. This is due to people using higher resolutions. I'm at 1792 x 1344 and that sucker looked monstrous. I'm afraid to look at it at 800 x 600.
02 Feb 2005 | One of several Steves said...
Good god. That is the Ford Excursion of buttons. I'm running 1600x1200 and the thing scared me. At the risk of repeating Jamie, I think if I were running at 800x600, I'd run away screaming.
02 Feb 2005 | schlank jetzt said...
BIG is ugly but definately useful.
After all many people are blind to a certain degree.
02 Feb 2005 | Bob said...
I want to click it so bad...just to see what it does. That's an expensive experiment, though...
03 Feb 2005 | mh said...
I've been thinking about high resolutions lately--looking at an app my company is developing, and a data table where the columns are miles apart...We can make text bigger/scalable, but this all seems to scream for vector-based graphics & UI elements on the web, no?
