JungleDragon

Hi Ferdy,

Great design, it's definitely visually appealing.

Here's my suggestions:

General

1. You need a tagline below the logo. It took me about 30 seconds to find out exactly what the site does. I should be able to get it within 5 seconds. A tagline would definitely help this.
2. Under the number of votes, what does that icon do? I don't really understand it. I would also put some bottom padding underneath the Vote button.
3. I would move the image heading 'Young Javan Lutung close-up' above the image and make the text bigger.
4. I'm not sure what the image to the left of the top right login box does until I hover over it. I would lose that image.
5. I would add the label 'Search' to your search box and make the input text slightly bigger.
6. Once the site's out of alpha testing, I would replace that box with a big Upload button.
7. I've just noticed the tagline is underneath that box, move it to underneath the logo as I said earlier. Lose the image to the left.
8. The 'Popular / Fresh / Suprise' tabs look mis-aligned somehow. Maybe vertical align the text to the middle and increase the margin between those and the 'Most recent' buttons below. I would also make the active button a different colour, that would sort out the missing border on the bottom of the active tab.

Image Page

1. The vote feature to the left of the heading, I didn't understand what it was for until I hovered. I would label it as a vote button.
2. In the 'More by' box to the right. I would lose the active image as you can't click it, so there's no point showing it.

Join Page

1. Have the fields all the same width.
2. Change 'Username' to 'Nickname'. Users might think they have to choose a username to login with, but as I've noticed you login with your email address (which is good).
3. I would ditch the image verification. It takes too much thought. It isn't the users fault if you haven't got good enough protection backend to stop spam. Users just want to fill out the form with no hassle, and that is hassle.
4. The 'Law of the Jungle' in a nice play on words instead of terms and conditions, but it might confuse users. I would just rename to terms and conditions.
5. I would drop the 'Cancel' button. If they don't want to sign up they'll hit the back button.

I'll go through more pages and in more detail when I've got time.

There's so much I like about this site, so don't think all I'm thinking is negative!

Hope it helps,

Steve

Hi Ferdy,

It took me few days before I found time to review your site. The funny thing is since the concept has been posted you improved it (more pictures on the homepage = good).

General remarks

1. Let me say at first that you have created a cute site which is beautiful from graphical design perspective with perfectly working sweet gizmos giving instant gratification. Wow, really amazing level of craftsmanship.

2. I must say I like the idea as there are a lot of animal lovers around (myself included). That being said I'm under the impression that somewhere during development you got derailed.

3. My feeling is you wanted to create a site for nature lovers to view and share beautiful beautiful photos. Unfortunately you created a SOCIAL BEHEMOTH with nature photos in the background.

4. IMHO with a little redesign you could bring the initial spirit back and make admiring nature and learning about it the primary focus. This is what your target group really wants.

5. Another element which is not obvious for me would be your business model. It's not visible at this stage but I hope you have something up your sleeve :)

A little about details

1. Notification bar should not move the whole page down because this is very disturbing for the users. I would make it on an overlay or somewhere inside the page closer to where the action was initiated.

2. System does not need to display notification to every activity like for example: 'comment added' as user can see this comment appear. There is more notifications like this.

3. Photo upload is a slow, tedious and not pleasurable experience. I would suggest redesigning this process to something more modern and user friendly otherwise the fuel for the website (photos) will not appear fast enough to keep users interested.

Hope this helps because I can see great future for a cute site about nature if user experience is improved.

Keep up the good work!

Michael

(user experience designer & strategist)

I really love this concept. As a photographer myself, I can easily see myself using this website a lot. The design is clean, the nae is great, so is the fonts, and I love the concepts. Only thing is that maybe you could think of a neater way to display the foodchain. Possibly a flow chart or something of that sort? Maybe you could make a cool design showing some bigger fish eating some little fish next to the foodchain? Just something to think about :)

This is a very nice site, but the only thing I wanted to say was that the name is awesome ;) Good luck with it!

the orange rectanlge can be dark green , the nav can be more sexy may be smaller and the header need a work out to get you the feel of the jungle may be some nice illustrations and i guess you need a logo too .

hi,

first of all appreciate the color scheme for the design, alignment of the content and images. Looks cool with good color selection. Clean navigation and decent arrangements.

But I guess the site's look will get change when you change the monkey image from home page and somewhat or somewhere it looks un finishable. Otherwise cool effort. Keep rocks...

Hi Fredy,

Nice website and idea , i like the simple design . What i noticed is there is no where written what this site is about, it has purpose and a niche which is a strong point in my opinion, you might add a ligne under the "JungleDragon" that tells it.

Another thing would be to work more the menu on the top and the layout, my first impression when i saw the screenshot i was thinking it is a blog

Hope it helps you Good luck

hello i like your layout a lot, what i will change : - bigger logo - rectangular tab for homogenize the design (in the user interface screenshot) - smaller height search bar(juste a litle) - the reflection effect in the navigation bar don't work well maybe it will be better with only one color.

good luck-

Hello, in general I like this design it is simple, but as I'm guessing it was mentioned to be simple, the entire idea behind website is simple awesome and I love it! :)

Suggestions:

1) You have quite nice logotype, but there is icon missing, try to make some kickass dragon and add it before the Jungle Dragon

2) The menu section could be slightly improve try to remove the "gloss effect" add small amount of gradient to it ike 5% and inner stroke of 1px perhaps

3) Awesome dragon in the footer, but the text area in the footer section could be better.

In general I think there is not to much to change it seems to be quite done:)

Good Job!