Pinterest shapes Web design wave
The virtual bulletin board Pinterest is like Jennifer Aniston’s hair in 1995: Everyone wants the look.
For better or worse, imitators of the Pinterest phenomenon are springing up all over the Web, turning their previously linear and reverse-chronology websites into a flat wall of tiled images that de-emphasize text and focus on photos.
Springpad, a Boston-based app that lets you create digital notebooks and compile clippings from the Web, debuted a redesign last month that lets users share interest boards with each other. The tiled, picture-centric interface looks a lot like Pinterest.
