Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Site Design Feedback

We are in the process of designing the next release of freshbrain.org targeted for January.

This will be the first "real" release as it will have all of the capabilities described under About - How it Works. It will support activities and projects that can be completed in a number of different areas including: Web; Graphic Design; Music; Video / Movies; Gaming; Eco/Green; and Developer.

The site will provide a number of collaboration tools to help complete these activities and projects. There will be a community to ask questions of and bounce ideas off. And there will be advisors available if needed to help.

Now back to the real question. Here is a snapshot of the existing site (top) and a very early mock up of the front page of the new site (bottom). Please leave a comment to let us know what you think of the new design.

  • What are your first impressions of the site? What do you like and what do you not like?
  • Do you like the overall look and feel of this site better or worse than the existing site?
  • Are there any things on the page that just don't make sense?
  • Are there any things on the page that you think are really cool?
  • If you got to design the front page, what would you do differently?
Thanks - all of your feedback will go back into the designers to consider for the next mock up.

6 comments:

FreshMint said...

Can we have a go at designing the homepage?

Dale Ferrario said...

You bet - we would love it!!

FreshMint said...

Where should I email it to?

FreshMint said...

Heres just a start.
I will continue if you like it
and think it's worth me continuing.
Here

Dale Ferrario said...

Thanks for the first cut.

The important difference between the current site and the Beta is that we will provide for different technology areas that can be explored. In each area you will be able to do activities (a contest is one type of activity) and projects. There will be tools and training to support these.

The goal is to make it interesting to check out and easy to find something cool to do. For example, make a movie, do something with graphics, and so on.

Posting them like you did is best so that maybe someone else will see what you have done and create their own design ideas.

Thanks!
Dale

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