The toppings you may chose for that TV dinner pizza slice when you forgot to shop for foods, the paint you may slap on your face to impress the new boss is your business. But what about your daily bread?
Design comps, layouts, wireframes—will your clients accept that you go about things the facile way? Authorities in our business will tell in no uncertain terms that Lorem Ipsum is that huge, huge no no to forswear forever.
Lorem Ipsum is a tool that can be useful, used intentionally it may help solve some problems.
Lorem Ipsum actually is usefull in the design stage as it focuses our attention on places where the content is a dynamic block coming from the CMS (unlike static content elements that will always stay the same.) Blocks of Lorem Ipsum with a character count range provide a obvious reminder to check and re-check that the design and the content model match up.
Kyle Fiedler from the Design Informer feels that distracting copy is your fault:
If the copy becomes distracting in the design then you are doing something wrong or they are discussing copy changes. It might be a bit annoying but you could tell them that that discussion would be best suited for another time. At worst the discussion is at least working towards the final goal of your site where questions about lorem ipsum don’t.
If that’s what you think how bout the other way around? How can you evaluate content without design? No typography, no colors, no layout, no styles, all those things that convey the important signals that go beyond the mere textual, hierarchies of information, weight, emphasis, oblique stresses, priorities, all those subtle cues that also have visual and emotional appeal to the reader. Rigid proponents of content strategy may shun the use of dummy copy but then designers might want to ask them to provide style sheets with the copy decks they supply that are in tune with the design direction they require.
Asking the client to pay no attention Lorem Ipsum isn’t hard as it doesn’t make sense in the first place, that will limit any initial interest soon enough. Try telling a client to ignore draft copy however, and you’re up to something you can’t win. Whenever draft copy comes up in a meeting confused questions about it ensue.
Inspired by the sorbet-based Sgroppino, this cocktail also takes cues from another vacation stalwart — the fruity, frozen daiquiri — with a scoop of sorbet for extra frost.
- 1 medium scoop hibiscus sorbet
- 1½ ozs. Denizen white rum
- 1 oz. velvet falernum
- ¼ oz. simple syrup
- ¾ oz. lime juice
- 6 drops Bittermens Elemakule Tiki Bitters
- ½ oz. aquafaba or egg white
Add all ingredients to shaker tin with six ice cubes. Shake hard for 10 seconds. Strain immediately into a chilled glass. Garnish with lime wheel and mint sprig.
