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0 pointsmattmanser12y ago0 comments

I wonder if you're design blind? I've met a few people like that before. If that's all you think there is to a design, the 'standard' layout, you've missed a lot.

Are you seriously going to tell me you can't see the similarity between:

http://www.infinum.co/services http://kintek.com.au/services/

That most websites don't have that curve, or the spacing on the left/right or the little bar above the menu rather than below or any of the things that screams a rip? Then scroll down to the footer and they're identical.

Go open any other software consultancy website and see if you can see those same similarities?

There's so much more to a design than just the grid layout.

I've seen this happen myself at a company I consulted for, they told the designer they wanted a website that looked like X's website, so the designer pretty much cloned the website, moved a couple of things around and changed the logo. Client thought it was wonderful.

On a separate note, does anyone else find the indenting of the HTML on the infinum site to be very odd?

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kghose12y ago

I'd say I'm design blind. From the examples in the post I would say, yes the sites have a passing similarity, but many, many company webpages look very similar to those two. The color schemes and layout details are different, the logos are quite different and the wording is different. So, to me, this is not plagiarism. Perhaps a telling comment on the sameness of a lot of design on the web.

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