It's weird that a company as well known as Ghost has a site that feels like a wholesale copy of Stripe's old design.
I don't know how I feel about it, slightly negative probably. I think Stripe does a lot of stuff really well, and it makes sense to copy many of the things they do, mostly from the UX and information design aspects. But to copy the branding itself seems like it defeats the point, because it makes Ghost feel cheaper.
I normally wouldn't have commented on this, but I just saw the "Scale API" startup's site yesterday and noticed that they too were doing a wholesale copy of not just Stripe's information design, but their branding too...
Besides the gradient background I'm not really seeing it on the ghost site. On the Scale site I see what you're saying. This comment does bring to mind something I heard a while back.
What web developers say to you when they see something you made with bootstrap: "Another bootstrap site."
What everyone else says when they see the same thing: "I didn't know you were good at design."
I don't know how I feel about it, slightly negative probably. I think Stripe does a lot of stuff really well, and it makes sense to copy many of the things they do, mostly from the UX and information design aspects. But to copy the branding itself seems like it defeats the point, because it makes Ghost feel cheaper.
Check out the Wayback Machine...
- Ghost 2017: https://ghost.org/features/
- Stripe 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304012926/https://stripe.co... https://web.archive.org/web/20160304013548/https://stripe.co... https://web.archive.org/web/20160304014557/https://stripe.co...
I normally wouldn't have commented on this, but I just saw the "Scale API" startup's site yesterday and noticed that they too were doing a wholesale copy of not just Stripe's information design, but their branding too...
- Scale 2017: https://www.scaleapi.com/
- Stripe 2017: https://stripe.com/radar https://stripe.com/
It doesn't seem like a smart approach to take, but maybe it works.