Hmm, Layout wise, definately an improvement.
But aside from the nicer and softer graphical elements like the dots and badges, I have to say I liked the older concept more. 1. The top half above the fold at 1400 x 1050 isn't too bad, I see just down to where the calendar icons are. Further down is where the overload begins for me. There's just too much colour with the separate colours (and styles) for the most popular ranking on the left, calendars at centre, and ads on the right. It just screams, and while I think your regular users will get used to it, it's a bit of a turn off to first timers. I simply can't see at first glance where the focus is. 2. Not sure if that yellow for your tabs is your colour. Great for usability - after seing the top nav, eyes are instantly drawn to the other important elements of the site. I dunno, something about it on white doesn't sit right for me. 3. I'm sure this would have been tried, but I think the site would look alot better with a different (darker) bg outside the main content to define it. I just can't imagine what that would do to the above two points however. 4. Event detail pages are displaying full size images directly in the same window. I don't class myself as a usability expert, but I have seen so many people (incl. myself) completely close a site when they actually want to go back because of this. Add event form is great. The big help button is easy to find. All up, I like the new layout is a winner. The colour concepts not so much. Cheers Aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon Holywell To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:03 PM Subject: [phpug] Re: New Eventfinder website - feedback? Where do you want the user to focus their attention. The now with 354% more awesome is where the eye is immediately drawn I would say (I, in fact, find it quite distracting as my eye is drawn to it all the time). Great for promoting your own branding. If you want people to look at the content then maybe drop the red background colour back a bit? Dunno. Obviously you are always going to have this trouble due to the type and amount of content but there are so many boxes screaming for my attention on the front page it is difficult to work out where to look first and what is or should be important to me as a user. I should point out that I am viewing the site on an ASUS eeePC so the screen size is small so maybe that is affecting my impression. The site looks great on the small screen BTW. 2008/12/16 James McGlinn <[email protected]> Hi guys, We've finally redesigned the Eventfinder website: http://www.eventfinder.co.nz It was 18 months since any design work had been done on Eventfinder, while we were busy working on other events sites. It's great to finally have had a chance to breath more life into our own project. We're especially proud of the new 'add event' form which has been the recipient of plenty of usability attention this time around. Any feedback, criticisms, suggestions, etc will be gratefully received. Kind regards, James McGlinn __________________________________ CTO Eventfinder Limited Suite 106, Heards Building 2 Ruskin Street, Parnell, Auckland 1052 Phone: +649 365 2342 Mobile: +6421 633 234 [email protected] | www.eventfinder.co.nz -- Simon Holywell http://www.simonholywell.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
