On The Sleeve
of Eliot Y

FEB 21: Still in New York, maybe going to London.
    Fri
    20
    Feb
    11:05AM

  1. Vimeo embeds

    pile:

    Remember two weeks ago when I pointed out that YouTube’s “new” text-over-embeds looks like a shittier version of what Vimeo has been doing for 4 years? I guess they took the hint because today they trashed the gross 1px black stroke and decided to throw a grey box behind it, exactly like Vimeo! Of course they didn’t want to look too good, so they threw in some rounded corners for good measure. WE LOVE BEING GOOGLE’S DESIGN TEAM.
    Well, with all due respect, the embeds on Vimeo have room for improvement. Yes, the YouTube version with the titles and the useless stars are worse (much worse), but whoever said that we needed to put all this, um, junk (title, play button, a white (why?) time box, progress bar, volume, fullscreen icon and a vimeo icon) on top of the video image. Don’t get me wrong, these elements have style, and when you’re playing a video, are absolutely necessary, but why do I need to see all of them if I’m just scrolling by? If you insist, at least make them visible onhover, otherwise clean it up! How about just a play button?

    Other than this, I’d be thrilled if Google did start taking more design cues from Vimeo. Vimeo.com is beautiful.