24 June 2011 5 Comments

Eye For Design? Weigh-In Please

I need a design opinion. I don’t have the necessary faculties for this.

Here is a screenshot, or you can view the full site at adaptifier.com

What should I do with the color palette?

  • Change BOTH to match a new palette. (50%, 4 Votes)
  • Change the site palette to match the logo. (38%, 3 Votes)
  • Change the logo palette to match the site. (12%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 8

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5 Responses to “Eye For Design? Weigh-In Please”

  1. Leo 25 June 2011 at 12:40 pm #

    Had a quick look at the welcome page of your main site. Didn’t like the design at all.

    Your strapline “What gets measured, gets improved” is a strong proposition which gives a clear idea of what you are about. BUT the italic font emasculates it and embedding it inside a block of darker grey means that it tends to disappear.

    And now the bad news: I didn’t like the color scheme at all. That purple doesn’t remind me of Imperial Rome, it just looks like dried blood. I’d lost it in favor of the colors chosen for the Adaptifier logo.

    In fact, using the shades from that logo throughout your site would provide a pleasing consistency to the site as a whole.

    Apologies for frankness – but, as a Brit, it isn’t often I get the chance to express an honest opinion (or to dip a toe into the unfamiliar waters of US orthography).

    Best wishes,

    Leo

    • david 25 June 2011 at 12:44 pm #

      Leo,

      Thank you for your comments. I never looked at the colors as a purple, more of a red, but I can see that. In my defense, I didn’t lay out this color scheme, it was just a stock stylesheet from a WordPress theme. I added the dark red buttons, charts, links etc from there.

  2. Mike Sharkey 27 June 2011 at 1:49 am #

    hey Dave, since you asked….the new “A” in the title looks like Azazel’s tail from X-Men: First Class.

  3. Will 27 June 2011 at 8:25 am #

    I agree with Leo that you could scrap the italicized ‘mission statement’.

    If you would like to keep the Battleship Grey palette scheme, that is cool, maybe make the logo a deeper red, like scarlet with maybe some blue.

    I love the software, you know this.

    Cheers,
    will

    • david 27 June 2011 at 11:53 am #

      Scarlet red with some blue, battleship grey? Do I feel a Capt America theme coming on?