Sina.com steals our design and graphics
We were recently made aware (thanks to a comment on our blog by Phillipe) of a new classifieds site in China that had not only lifted our previous user interface's look & feel, but also directly copied some of our graphics (note the cool pushpin graphic that our designer Becky created). The shocking thing is that the website in question is owned by one of China's largest search engines called Sina.com. Couldn't they afford to hire a designer?

Anyway, take a look for yourself at the images I've attached to this blog entry. Alternatively, check out the screenshots of our previous UI and then visit: http://post.sina.com.cn/v3_index.php

Let's just say that I'm looking forward to our China launch..

- Garry

我不想评论什么，只是有点灰心。不管Sina究竟有没有抄袭Live界面，孰是孰非并非能够准确论断。不过目前在美国极有影响的博客TechCrunch也已经撰文报道了此事，Sina不得不承受随之而来的舆论压力。
而那位UI设计师，只能是哀其不幸、怒其不争了。

plus：今天Feedsky推出2006中文网址年会特色Blog评选活动，我昨天到Feedsky参与的用户测试的重点内容正是本活动的用户操作体验，宣传一下。顺便推荐一下FeedskyUI设计师cero的博客，他当然是没有抄袭Windows的界面设计，不过一样把这次年会特色Blog评选的界面设计得干净漂亮。