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Re: Show HN: I made a landing page am I doing this right?

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Post by dayvonjersen »

warent wrote: post #3

I'm a professional programmer not a graphics person, so take with a grain of salt. It looks cool! The intro is fun and the scrolling title bar is a nice touch (although I think some people might be turned off by it) I will say though, to me personally it looks very simplistic. For example, the button and the textbox appear to have no styling. Also I don't understand why there's an X in the top-right corner which repe…

I am also not a graphics person. Or a programmer. Just a person with a dream and an Internet connection :)

Thanks for positive feedback, someone gets what I was going for :p

Re: Show HN: I made a landing page am I doing this right?

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Post by heresjohnny »

Nice first attempt! What I would try to do is find a design system and stick with that. Someone else already commented about the size of the text and elements. If you’re not designing on a daily basis, you will overlook such and many other gotchas like consistency of padding, font weight vs. font size, and so on. A great one I can recommend is TailwindUI—just make sure to give a template your own spin to prevent looking too generic.

Re: Show HN: I made a landing page am I doing this right?

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Post by liminal-dev »

Good job creating your own site!

From a design view-point, remember: less is more. As others here have commented, the UI has a lot of unnecessary details and effects that take away from the overall professionalism of the site.

Try focusing on the bare minimum, and go from there. For example, less animations (even though they're cool), getting rid of that white box glow, and a bigger font, can go a long way.

Remember who your target audience is, and design for the broadest group possible in that audience. Keep it simple, and intuitive, and with a hint of magic.

Good luck!

Re: Show HN: I made a landing page am I doing this right?

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Post by gnicholas »

I don't understand the very large X in the upper right corner. Typically these appear when a window has appeared on the screen, and the X is how you dismiss it. Here, it loads with the page, so it's not clear if I would want to click it to 'dismiss' what I'm currently seeing. But since I don't know what's behind this (or how to get the current view back), I would be hesitant to click it.

Re: Show HN: I made a landing page am I doing this right?

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Post by obfuscator »

I was taught a good lesson about animations, that I want to share: When you make an animation, you might fall in love with it too much. You are proud, because it looks really cool. It's exciting to make it. Visitors of your page might not feel the same, since we see so many animations every day. Look at one of those cheap american news shows - there are really professional animations all the time. It's a hard pill to swallow, noone cares about our animation as much as we do :( It doesn't mean, the animation should go. It should absolutely stay, but the crank up the speed of the animation as much as you can bear. And then make it twice as fast. I mean that literally. I had made an animation that took a second to complete, a decade ago. My senior looked at it, and gave that same lesson. I cranked the speed up to 0.3 seconds - it was as much as I was willing to speed up. "Otherwise noone can really see it." ... Then I sped it up to 0.15 seconds, went to lunch, and when I came back, I could appreciate that it was perfect.

Re: Show HN: I made a landing page am I doing this right?

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Post by kmoser »

Very cool visuals, but after the record flies out and lands at the bottom of the screen, the record seems like a hyperlink because the mouse pointer turns into a finger, yet nothing happens on click.

The "X" to close the "popup" is pretty subtle. But there doesn't seem to be any point to closing it, is there?

Re: Show HN: I made a landing page am I doing this right?

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Post by dayvonjersen »

obfuscator wrote: post #16

I was taught a good lesson about animations, that I want to share: When you make an animation, you might fall in love with it too much. You are proud, because it looks really cool. It's exciting to make it. Visitors of your page might not feel the same, since we see so many animations every day. Look at one of those cheap american news shows - there are really professional animations all the time. It's a hard pill to…

It was much slower originally >_>

Solid advice! I'll try 150ms thanks :)

Re: Show HN: I made a landing page am I doing this right?

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Post by dayvonjersen »

kmoser wrote: post #17

Very cool visuals, but after the record flies out and lands at the bottom of the screen, the record seems like a hyperlink because the mouse pointer turns into a finger, yet nothing happens on click. The "X" to close the "popup" is pretty subtle. But there doesn't seem to be any point to closing it, is there?

Thank you. yes the X is useless unless you want to see the animation again which based on the comments no one wanted to see the first time :p
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