A Review of Website redesign for skobbler.de by Rich Boyle

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  • Rich Boyle

    Rich Boyle

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    • Design: 4
    • Purpose: 5
    • Originality: 5
    • Engagement: 4
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    Posted on Jun 02, 2010 at 4:19 PM

    Overall, I love the design. It is well laid out, content is mapped smoothly, and whitespace looks nice. I really love the color scheme... until the bottom of the index page, where you seem to lose sight of it. My biggest concern is that I don't like the color of the footer. It's very dark, and seems out of place with the rest of the colors. Still on the index page, your "Top Locations..." and "New people..." sections below the map don't have the blue header. Although I can understand why you chose to do this, I feel that you're losing a lot of attention to those two areas. Having the blue header really draws attention like "hey, there's something new over here!"

    My second concern is how some lines break. The overall typography is fairly well done, but if you were to justify certain areas, say the features on the "Tour" page, I feel you would really neaten it up a lot. My biggest concern with this, however, is how under the "Skobbler iPhone App Tour" header, the word 'navigation' is broken onto two lines. The user has to read from one of of his/her screen all the way to the other side of the screen to finish the word. A computer screen is not a book; this could create some readability flaws.

    Overall, this is a really well put together site, great job!

    • Ionut Resetar
      Ionut Resetar commented:
      Posted: on Jun 03, 2010 at 12:50 AM

      thanks for the comment, the footer is one think that I didn't change, it's the same footer from the actual design that you can find online. The line breaks is not an issue now because this is the photoshop version and the text is just added there I didn't loos time to play with that because I don't know yet what text will have there and when it will come to adding the text in code this will not happen.

      I will give a try with justifying some areas.