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Comment by Cumpiler69

2 days ago

Guys, what are we doing here?

To me it's a very confusing website, that's also a stuttery mess(Chrome, Win10, Ryzen 4000 6 core). I would much prefer the web page styles of the 90's with just hyperlinks and pictures instead of these fancy orbital sci-fi neural net styles so that some fron-end designers can flex their skills. It looks cool but the UX is bad.

Is this the future of European tech? Online museums to show digital tourists our glorious long gone tech past similar to our IRL museums? The irony is not lost on me.

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doikor  2 days ago

They were being thrown away/deleted so some researches from the university decided to save them. I much prefer this to losing this information/history fully.

  • Cumpiler69  2 days ago

    >I much prefer this to losing this information/history fully.

    Edit: Fair enough but I Still maintain my option on the site's poor design.

    • doikor  2 days ago

      These are not pulled from some random website. These are actual internal archives donated from Nokia (well Microsoft Mobile Oy these days)

      https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/about.html

      > The Nokia Design Archive is a graphic and interactive portal designed by researchers from Aalto University in Finland. It currently hosts over 700 entries, curated from thousands of items donated by Microsoft Mobile Oy and representing over 20 years of Nokia’s design history — both seen and unseen. You can freely explore the archive, learn about designers’ experiences working in Nokia and discover interesting topics surrounding design and mobile technologies.

      You can look at the uncurated collection at aalto university repo https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8... (not sure if all of the materials digitized/online though)