Here are the links to my local biz and sustainability sites:
Good Things Come in Small Packag(ing)
For this site, only the links for Amazon and Bizrate are currently functional. They each contain a different "gift" at the end just because I wanted to get feedback on whether ending on the image of a mobile site (i.e. playing of the "small packaging") or on just a small item (as you will see in Bizrate) worked better.
Correale's Brooklyn Bridge
Also here is the in-progress version of my Brooklyn Bridge WordPress site. I don't know how fully developed it will get, but I wanted to see how close I could get to my actual design:
BB WordPress
Feedback appreciated!
Sustainability: Good Job for making people frustrating, looking through the package and only got a small thing. May be you can put a timer on the side to push user to fine the object also user can realize how many time they spent on open a big package for a tiny thing. For the interface part, for some reason everything looks like floating. Maybe you can use the bottom of a inside cardboard box for background instead black, maybe. Over all, very nice interaction, I have fun with it :D
ReplyDeleteLocal: Good Design, food look delicious, feel hungry already. Because of the big space of the left, right, and bottom so the top feel very close to the top, either could move the whole thing down or add something around. Everything is really nice, if you want to do something more, on the menu page, the picture can change with the click. For instance, Chicken with picture of Chicken dish. Steak with pic of Steak.
If Don't understand want I am talking about, please, let me know!!!!
Thanks Chiao!
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ReplyDeleteOn the Local site I would work on the typography/layout in the text/content area so there is more white space above and around the main headings. The text looks crowded toward the top. If that creates a page length which is too long, just size all of the text down a touch.
Also, on the local site i would experiment with some subtle background elements which make the page feel expansive despite the small interface. Something that draws the eyes outward (in width) creating a sense of spaciousness with the elegance of black. The challenge is that black while elegant can also be claustrophobic or heavy. You need a little lilt in the visual cadence. Perhaps try abstracted versions of the bridge line drawing again, but on a larger lighter (subtle) scale.
ReplyDeleteThe sustainability site looks good, however on my browser I get a black gaps between the "active" peanuts and the peanut "border". I also agree with Chiao about the overall interface. I would build a cardboard box "frame" for the site. You can make it scale with the window. It would add an important level of refinement and clarity to the project.
ReplyDeleteI have a subtle problem with the border peanuts in that they scale with the browser window and can easily be expanded or shrunk to the point that they do not match the active peanuts. I am trying to think of a solution, but haven't thought about it very long.
BB WorPress-
ReplyDeleteFind theme or plugin to turn Pages into topnav bar.
remove: Archive, Blogroll, and Categories
Place Meta in footer and rename.
Style colors, text, and background(s)
Shoot me an email when I should look again.
By the way...
ReplyDeleteGood Work:)
Thanks Zark! I knew my BB site was in the little tweaks and fixes stage and I'm happy about that. I have been thinking about adding a faint background texture/image to it to open it up a little, so I will look into that. I will also try and create the cardboard box frame as I actually had that in my original idea for the site. Go figure :).
ReplyDeleteMichael,
ReplyDeleteAwesome job on both sites! The concept on the sustainability site is so cool, I don't even really care what it looks like. I like the design changes you made to the Local Biz site. It looks a lot better! I still would like to see what it would be like with a warm color scheme (dark brown background) but I see what you're doing with the black (all classy and what-not). I like the type a lot better, too. :)
I don't know why, but the colors I've chosen for my site (the dark blue in v1 and dark warm brown in v2) render as black on Apples. It's weird...I guess I'll need to find a medium brown that will look like a dark brown on the Macs. Thanks guys!
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