site crit please
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- PonyBoy0
nice and clean... feels 'medical'... perhaps a little dated - but that could just be the expected imagery slapping me in the face (DNA strand... Doctor w/clipboard and stethoscope)...
fix the kerning on the word 'You'. :)
- lvl_130
at an ultra quick glance:
lose the rules between the main nav. there should be a better way to distinguish between sections...if it really even needs that.drop the italicized links. just make them bold or a slightly darker color. the italics with the non anti-aliasing looks weird.
any chance you can get some none stock photos/graphics? the image on the right doesn't look horrible, but the image on the left is pretty bad.
- iCanHasQBN0
the pink to gray tone in the image looks bad and muddy. going full color would be better and would bring some life into the site. the gray is like something dead - doesn't say "alive" or "healthy". it says "expired".
i dont like how the generic DNA image is more prominent than the main large image. the idea of it is nice though - as an accent image to fill up some space.
- ukit0
The orange bar and the photo pull your eye in two different directions.
- VectorMasked0
the "so do we" sticks out way too much with that font that you are not using anywhere else on the layout.
- forcetwelve0
not bad. could be a little punchier perhaps with some bigger and bolder typography? seems like everything is very sparse.
- leftwave0
great feedback everyone! thank you. i will work on implementing some of these ideas and re-post shortly...
- monospaced0
The navigation at the top doesn't feel integrated, in any way, with the site, navigation-wise and design-wise. I would recommend incorporating them into the page itself, perhaps below the photos, in a style that actually fits. I also don't think you need to color code their sections. Otherwise, I enjoy the open feel and color palette, it's quite fitting to the subject. Good luck.
- thanks, but the 5 color thing is 100% the client's request... that was the only thing they are set onleftwave
- version30
- but something needs done about the right of the top navversion3
- i think the logo is still too bigversion3
- the navigation has some catching up to domonospaced
- version30
- moved the footer overversion3
- no i think he has it right with the menu
Etype - she. i don't like how it's long, fits better under the wider content imoversion3
- much thanks for all the mock-ups version3! where can i send the check? :)leftwave
- i was slicing my own comps up so the process was sitting fresh ;)version3
- ckentish0
no impact - clean and simple - you answered the brief
- Etype0
the type seems a bit too light... other than that its good
- dMullins0
I would like that doctor give me a check-up.
- monospaced0
The top navigation feels like an afterthought and I am compelled to ignore it like ad space for some reason.
- raskolnikov0
There's nothing really inspiring me too look any further than the home page and it all looks rather dated. I'd say this was a nice site for 2002, but doesn't look current in any way.
Now do your usual and go ahead and ignore what everybody says
- and I don't mean do shiny tables and glass buttonsraskolnikov
- ha - nasty but true, but thats the point of sharing ya work hereckentish
- johndiggity0
i don't like the look on that woman's face in the header. i'd pick another pic. she looks really smug. too smug to give me medical advice.
and pull back the "so do we" in the header also. either different font, different weight, or different size, not all three at once. pick one.
- ukit0
Once you get past all the comments on positioning, nudging the logo to the left etc (which is all needed), step back and take a look at it from the POV of the customer. Does it entice you to click into the site? To me it wouldn't at all. The color scheme is very cold and almost antique looking.
- leftwave0
- I think that's better. I feel like the color bars below the global nav should be aligned with the bottom of the "New Directions" text in the logo.Josev
- text in the logo.Josev
- I just noticed that you had once left aligned the whole nav with the grid in your prototypes above. Why did you change it?Josev
- It looked better when it was aligned with the left edge of text in the image and the left edge of the main column of text.Josev
- of text. The line break in the image text is weird, too.Josev
- thanks Josev! good stuff :)leftwave
- Big improvement leftwave, I would balance out the "you take your" headline text.utopian