{"id":1267,"date":"2007-05-08T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2007-05-16T14:11:05","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T18:11:05","slug":"core77-vs-sl-teen-transgenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Core77 vs SL Teen Transgenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a mind-boggling entry on the Core77 blog. Designers: read this post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/design_changes_in_real_hotels_modeled_after_virtual_ones_6237.asp\">&#8220;Design changes in real hotels modeled after virtual ones&#8221; (Link)<\/a>, and feel free to explain this class of inbred thinking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you want to spruce up your hotel chain, you could hire a team of designers&#8230;or you could sign on to Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>Aloft Hotels, a subsidiary of Starwood (and sibling to the swanky W Hotels) has been implementing feedback from Second Life users on how to revamp their virtual hotel. For several months they&#8217;ve been redesigning everything from color palettes to actual space layouts based on what SL users have been telling them, and today, May 8th, is launch day.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this notable? Because Aloft is planning on implementing the design changes in their real hotels, too. <strong>Fate is a cruel mistress, friends; four years of design school, and we designers may be put out of work by a bunch of transgender teenagers with batwings for ears<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t express how embarrassed I am for the entire design community. Words fail me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a mind-boggling entry on the Core77 blog. Designers: read this post, &#8220;Design changes in real hotels modeled after virtual ones&#8221; (Link), and feel free to explain this class of inbred thinking: If you want to spruce up your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1267\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}