MJ and I are busy trying to brain storm on website design. For those of you reading this, you’ll no doubt have noticed we have a splash page that is one big graphic, and a blog, neither of which is related to each other in design (apart from they are both blue-ish).
In looking at various other Mac software houses, I see a trend of conformity. “Let’s put everything on a white background because the Apple website is all white. Oh hang on, they’re putting things on a black background now. Let’s use a rounded menu bar. Let’s put everything in rounded rectangles – even this blog is guilty of that!
Given the possibilities that the web technologies allow, is it that hard to come up with something even a little unique. I like some of the ideas at Panic – the outline of new product icon, the drag’n’drop download, although some more useful info about each product on the front page would be nice. I also quite like Black Tree, although it is a little on the monochromatic side. At least Delicious Library used an original colour set (regardless of whether I think it’s a good colour set).
We don’t need to represent a lot of information here. A bit about the company, the people in it, and the products we make/will make. Allow people to get information, software or just get in touch easily, and yet still be eye-catching and even just a bit original.
Soon, my precious.