Feedback on earlier homepage from a bunch of people including Kruti, Vishnu, Jay (the digital junkie from lkdigi), Arjun Gehlot (Wink) - thanks guys!
Who knew the homepage would be so involving yet again (after Gizapage earlier this year)
Too decorative
Too much going on
Layout was all over the place
Boxy navigation wouldnt work with images
So I'm busy working this out. This is what I have as of now (I'm going for clean navigation and distinct hierarchy)
Minor things >.<
Inside Page development - Opening Pages
Also, why is there no baseline grid in photoshop - I miss indesign.
(Note: the youtube video is just a screenshot of how a playlist looks when it is embedded on a website)
This is a template so I can sit with a friend of mine, who is going to be helping with the coding, so we can understand the real estate of the webpage and what is going to go where.
Using 'sharethis' and 'Disqus' which are 2 very cool apps for websites.
Designing more pages...
^ still working on the above page, few navigation glitches since content is a bit different from other pages!
Ok - it seems to be working somewhere but just screenshots of whats happening never convinces me about the dynamic nature of a website which is a "user experience". That depends not only on look and feel (which is in some sense bound together by a thread of consistency across layers/pages/heirarchies/typologies, etc) but also the chosen interface and the navigational choices that allow for non-linearity. It is also important to know how websites have evolved across five generations and the how and why of it. However, the other way to go about it is to kind of do a quick survey of some "top" or "popular" websites and try to clone some of the common principles that bind them. For instance:
ReplyDeleteSimple layout
3D effects, used sparingly
Soft, neutral background colours
Strong colour, used sparingly
Cute icons, used sparingly
Plenty of whitespace
Nice big text
If something like this is done I guess you can still say "Ok I got an okay website." But if you want to make it experiential then that's a much tougher job.
I would think that since your work is "process-driven" which inevitably means it is "experiential and framed by real spaces, people and real action", some of that feel and look should be transferred to those who hit your website. How effectively will you be able to do this, otherwise the site will be just another informational basic site.