Monday, October 20, 2008

eBay final redesign





I redesigned eBay to make it more user friendly and less complicated/busy in design and interface, but at the same time made it more appealing visually. I personally really like the direction I took this and that's not easy for me to say because normally I hate almost everything I come up with, it takes others to convince me to like it :P
Basically everything eBay does will be made to happen on one page with windows that pop up and expand, the windows can be minimized or closed, active scroll bars appear when necessary, at any time you can bring the background up by clicking it. Certain things such as the login button are color oriented and functions like a traffic light - it's red to catch your attention, stop you and let you know you should login, then it turns yellow once you click it, and finally you click the green login button and the whole thing disappears and is replaced by a notification that you are logged in. I looked for other weaknesses in eBay's page designs and I don't feel eBay really needs other pages redesigned, the page you view items is setup pretty well, there is a wealth of info but it's all necessary, so are the "watching" and "feedback" pages, they're all pretty intuitive and simple in design now since the redesign they did a year ago or so. I feel everything else could be implemented into this new design almost flawlessly.
To eBay: this is copyrighted. I'll sue you.
Please steal my idea, thanks.

Monday, October 13, 2008

eBay redesign


I decided to redesign eBay because quite frankly, it's a mess. I wanted to simplify their main page and make it easier to get to where you want to be without having to constantly change pages to get somewhere e.g. logging in. I have a few other ideas as well and an HTML based front page. The yellow buttons will expand giving you their functions in a windowed format, you can roll over a button to expand it via a window and keep it open until you move your cursor away from it, or you can click the button and the window will stay open until you click another button or option. At the bottom of the page is a scrolling item list that can also be manually scrolled through to see your watched items, or auctions that are about to end. This is not final, still working out some ideas, so bear with me!

Monday, October 6, 2008

Web Design: The Good and the Bad

THE GOOD

www.chipotle.com is definitely one of my favorites and a great example of good web design. It has a great flash based interface that makes sense, is very intuitive, and very easy to navigate.
Great sound effects, great animations, they pull the whole thing off like selling their 1300 calorie burritos.

www.pentaximaging.com is a pretty good website too. They've laid it out as simply as possible making it easy to navigate to the information you want. Simple flash menus that guide you to where you want to be, and you don't feel like your brain has just been overloaded by too much information at once. The colors are easy on the eyes, and you know you're on a website for a camera company immediately.

THE BAD

www.wizz.to/australia/brisbane is one of my recent least favorites. When you first goto www.wizz.to you are given the idea that the following pages will be as simple to navigate and easy on the brain, but when I was researching my design for Australia I navigated into this haven of fraudulent simplicity.
The guise of the website is that it's laid out fairly simply and is easy to navigate, but in reality it's a bombardment of information and links with no real grid or design. There is just too much going on for one page. Your eyes fly around the screen trying to find some place to start looking for the info you want. Drives me nuts.

Ladies and gentlemen, I now present to you the worst website...ever.
http://www.frnz.de/
It's a German "website" that's all types of horrible, and if you don't speak German, don't worry about it, because I'm pretty sure people who do won't know what the hell is going on either. All I can assume is the dog pictured created the website (but I highly doubt it would be this bad if it did).
I don't really need to say anything else except have a paper bag handy.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Final Poster ideas









The idea was to keep with the theme of the logos and incorporate the same type of imagery presented in them. I feel as if though something is still missing. I have no idea why the enviro posters look like crap...