Let’s be frank here, WordPress rocks, no doubt, but since it’s early beginning, the interface design has lagged behind it’s technical powers. This is why since December of 2004, Khaled, Michael Heilemann, Joen Asmussen, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar and later Bryan Veloso started Shuttle, a collaborative effort to bring design beauty to the WordPress admin interface. Well, it’s been almost a year and a half and the Shuttle team finally release their final mockups to the public.
I certainly welcome any improvements to the WordPress admin interface, and I do hold the Shuttle team in the highest regard, they are after all the rock stars of blogging, but these mockups are a bit disappointing. There are plugins that look way slicker than Shuttle. I was hoping Shuttle would bring an Apple sensitivity to design and interface to the WordPress admin but I guess this was not the case. Expectations can kill ya.
Link: Shuttle
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i don’t know, i kinda like the minimalist approach. The tiger admin is a great design, but it breaks down in too many places (unforeseen changes in the design of the posting template mostly from adding plugin options). The shuttle design will really shine if it’s got nifty ajaxian features ala moo flex. and hopefully it will be lite weight.
I will agree with you that there are plugins that are nicer than Shuttle, but for the simpleton (I am no simpleton) this would be great. Some people prefer the classic interface and I would consider this the next step up, design wise. You have linked the orderedlist plugin, which I think is awesome and use as well, but it’s very glitchy. Anywho to make this short, I rather have something like Shuttle because of all the hard work and the amount of time (not saying that the orderlist plugin didn’t take hard work and time to make). I just feel it will be a lot more stable and powerful?
Hi Melvin,
I am impressed by all your web design work. Great job. I also am involved in web design, I have not reached your success though. I currently use yahoo hosting and am so happy that their business hosting packages include WP and Movable Type. I love the simplicity and flexibility of WP. Take care
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.