Forum: Community Center


Subject: What was the point of the site redesign?

drifterlee opened this issue on Aug 19, 2015 ยท 34 posts


3dstories posted Fri, 21 August 2015 at 4:45 PM

@4221755

Kristi your comment is the best worded explanation of the reason for the changes I've heard. I don't know whether it's valid or not, but it's the reasoning behind the direction, at least.

For my two cents the lead marketing page is really the worst, and it sets the tone of expectations for the rest of the site. It is disorganized, over-crammed and over cluttered. If someone had walked into a conference room with a bunch of charts and threw them on the table and said "put all this in there somehow" and the programmer said 'okay' and just made an avante garde collage of whta he was told to do... with the only critera of making it fit, that seems what you wound up with.

Fix the first page correctly, considering a work flow of what we all generally tend to look at and in the proper sequence, and I feel a lot will follow more easily by increments.

The login page, like what DAZ has done in the past, contains nothing valuable. I look to get past that as soon as I can. It's not welcoming. It's not informational. What I logged into before I was at least interested in viewing for some time. Transfer some of the information to that, perhaps, or make it the important welcoming page.

I liked the homepage dashboard that had evolved. I had a promotional bar on the top, and what was going on today, plus easy access to buttons for sales. It wasn't perfect, but I'd rather see you parse that page into what you need rather than do what you did.

In RISDI (Rhode Island School of Design) work that I've seen the best is to keep open spaces as large as reasonably possible and make everything on them meaningful.

I liked the date time and number of artists online. The new views button for product is helpful, but I don't think you need both a "like" category with numbers only, which seems a brown-nose to Facebook, as well as a review option, which is more meaningful to both the artist and additional customers, I feel.

More perhaps at another time. I have to go now.