Critiques
- nmhu.edu
- Very handsome university site! Nice design. "Design only, please.. I could only watch and cringe at the build," says designer Patrick Foster. People in sidebar?
- thestranger.com
- Sexy youth content site (somewhat explicit) is migrating to NEW DESIGN. Contrast between existing design and new design -- probing rationales for change -- discussing whether this is a good directional change -- could make for interesting on-stage discussion.
- learningcommons.org
- The whole thing is fair game, but the most challenging design/messaging section is the membership page. If you hit anything requiring authentication, pick "Guest Access" from the school drop-down and enter "DLC Demo" as the mascot. ... Home page, About page, and Membership page need copy advice -- missing basic info, etc. -- Erin
- Travel Oregon
- "This site for the most part is XHTML 1.1 compliant with a couple of exceptions - data entered by the client in the CMS and a proprietary Microsoft Ajax solution." Beautiful design with lots of great little touches. (Minor bugs.) Copy, overall UX.
- www.sitecrafting.com
- Handsome site of site design company. Starts off with a bang, en medias res. No candy, no flowers?
- http://www.evergreen.edu/housing
- The Evergreen State College site "is vast -- and we're working on a redesign process by sections. We're particularly interested your critique of this new section of the site, in the following order of importance:
- Branding & Graphic Design
- Usability (if that's a category)
- Copy & Editorial
- www.illumit.com
- Home page copy is disorienting and needs help. Also nav/label problems.
- mozilla.com
- Redesign coming
- Select Trucks Dealer Project
- "Zen Garden approach" to desiging 22 sites in 30 days. – Pop Art, Inc. (Too many to seriously talk about, but might be interesting to show since it's such a unique project --Jason)
- classicfm.com
- Implemented, didn't design. How well does it meet W3C AIG?
- Tabblo
- "a fairly rich webapp whose main purpose is to let folks create stuff."
- ofm.wa.gov
- Government site. (Sassy color scheme! - JZ Flyout menus galore! - JSM)
- Eric: "This site is the result of a massive redesign, focus being meeting modern browser and 508 accessibility standards. It has been live since February and is a work in progress."
- dsionline.com
- Usability?
- Whistler.com
- Vacation planner
- New internationalist
- Social justice site. Trebuchet.
- Children's Story Project
- Like it says
- White Pages
- Consumer site. Alternately and perhaps more interestingly, White Pages Corporate Site.
- Research Channel
- Recently redesigned
- providence.org/BridgePedal/
- Markup/CSS quality and accessibility (top-level pages). "The first event to use my style-switchable template."
- IIDA Northern Pacific
- Prof design assoc
- Premera Blue Cross
- Writing, design, architecture, usability... Any of it, all of it!
- www.uwtv.org
- Soon to be revamped.
- continentalhomehardware.com
- The site is for a manufacturer of knobs, pulls, handles for the home. What we were going for:
- Clean clean clean!
- XHTML Strict (validates clean).
- Smart, clean, memorable URLs (using mod_rewrite on top of the PHP code base, rendered with Smarty templating).
- Simple easy navigation and functionality.
- tourismwhistler.com
- Werd.
- leriot.com
- Werd.
- dol.wa.gov
- Nice design. Multiple language challenges = pdfs.
- Carrier
- Large site built with 100% web standards. "Zen Garden approach."
- Bryant
- Large site built with 100% web standards."Zen Garden approach." — Pop Art, Inc.
- www.fox28spokane.com
- Designer believes front page needs more content but committee for whom he designed it disagrees. Site is for a TV station.
- NAPSTER
- CSS/XHTML, not design. (That's a shame, because it really needs a design crit. The design makes it seem like they don't even like music. It's so lifeless and devoid on energy. --Jason)
- "New homepage (and the Editors' Picks page) which launched a few days ago are the first major pieces I've worked on so if the critique was focused there, that would be wonderful."
- England Drive Life
- A recently-built client’s site. We built it with an eye towards standards compliance, easy navigation, aesthetics, and search engine readability. (Very little live text, and what little there is, falls apart on resize. Might be good for showing why you can't design the web like print -- Jason)
- Finkbuilt
- Wordpress blog
- Willamette
- "I am planning to redesign the above noted university home page shortly. I am going to take the design to fixed-width centered and am looking for overall suggestions about CSS and usability. I am also very interested in small-screen suggestions."
- ALTERNATELY: willamette.edu/scene/": "Our tri-annual university magazine is published in print and online, and the online edition received an overhaul with the most recent issue. We are about to publish the next issue — it is due to go to press during the first week of October and go online toward the end of the month — so I’d love to hear feedback on the new direction, its effectiveness, etc."
- aaronskelly.com
- Communication designer's site
- holisticforgeworks.com
- Cartoonist for hire (personal site).
- Artifex
- Web design and development.
- Terex Corp
- Design? Copy? Nav?
- beta.betachurch.org
- Usability
- 65.115.104.39/eduhound/
- Redesign with bold color palette (and web standards).
- 2400 M Apartments
- Nicely designed site for nicely designed Washington DC apartments on M Street. But EVERYTHING IS AN IMAGE.
- sphcm.washington.edu
- Designer's "first real attempt at CSS-P," launched 2003.
- Cre8tive Group
- I would love to have the messaging and branding/design critiqued! (It's a Flash site, so there's no HTML or CSS to critique…) [Flash sites almost always get ruled out for crits. Even if they are well designed, there just isn't a broad enough range of topics to talk about. -- Jason]
- www.azcentral.com/
- www.azcentral.com/ent/
- Late.
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