Getting Closer to 2.0

April 24th, 2006

This week is going to be full of busy evenings for me as I continue working on completing The Moleskin 2.0, The New Businessmakers site, and if I have time SempleIdeas. This morning when I woke up, I felt like I needed to have the design I am working on critiqued. I am a big fan of allowing people to critique your work so that you know that you haven’t gone off into La La land. In fact if you haven’t read it Jason Santa Maria posted a very good article on how to critique. I am also big on the whole 360 management philosophy so while I am usually the person critiquing other people’s work, today Chris and Andy got to critique my design in progress. I got a lot of good feedback, that will hopefully make it a better design. Here are some other things to look forward to.

Everything old is new again. It’s more of an evolution than a redesign, although I could argue that its harder to progressively change than to completely redesign
Flickr Stream. I will use my suggestion to Bryan and include a Flickr steam, although it won’t be photos.
People Love Icons. The one thing people said they liked the most were icons, so that icons are staying around.
The Pics at the top. The pictures are staying around but will morph into something I call the Meegos. More on that next week

Comments for “Getting Closer to 2.0”

Patrick Haney

April 24th, 2006

Speaking of icons, why are your navigation icons for Home and About the same i looking thing when you’re on the home page?

Kelsey Ruger

April 24th, 2006

That’s a bug that only happens on the home page. I noticed it last Friday :S. Figured I might as well change it when I relaunch. Maybe I will look at that right now. Update: OK, that’s fixed.

Andy

April 24th, 2006

I read that critique article by Jason last Thursday. It’s so good. Wait a minute…didn’t I send out an email to our employees about that? haha.

Gordon Montgomery

April 26th, 2006

Well done (andn very brave of you!) doing a critique.

What is it that you’d like “people” to do here?
Are Chris and Andy “people” ;) ?

My take: PEACE Man!

Primary purpose: It should be obvious at a glance what each web page does.

Effortless ease: Customers should not have a puzzle to solve as they move through the information.

Approved accessibility: All pages need to be valid, accessible and usable via target technologies.

Complete consistency: The interface and its layout always need to look and behave the same way.

Expected execution: The interface should respond as a typical customer expects it to.