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Re: Redesigning Exec - Again

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Post by pbreit » Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 5:52 AM UTC

karenxcheng wrote: post #10

Exec's designer (of the current redesigned site) here - Nice job! Very impressive how quickly you got this up given that we released it just this morning. I like the typography and alignment you have, and putting the live feed on the landing page is a very interesting idea. Thanks for taking the time to do this!

Is Exec getting out of "tasks"? The two tabs being "Cleaning" and "Errands" makes me wonder.

Re: Redesigning Exec - Again

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Post by endgame » Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 6:04 AM UTC

gue5t wrote: post #7

It's a good thing a name like "exec" wouldn't immediately cause any hackers to think of something else, like, I don't know, one of the most important syscalls of all time.

Yeah, I expected a discussion on the relative merits of the different exec calls and some new proposal that the author thought would be better in some way.

I got a slideshow of something on a background of raspberries.

Re: Redesigning Exec - Again

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Post by ZenJosh » Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 2:09 PM UTC

karenxcheng wrote: post #10

Exec's designer (of the current redesigned site) here - Nice job! Very impressive how quickly you got this up given that we released it just this morning. I like the typography and alignment you have, and putting the live feed on the landing page is a very interesting idea. Thanks for taking the time to do this!

Hey Karen!

Thanks for the feedback! I've been redesigning the whole Exec UI over the past couple of days, I didn't anticipate an actual redesign being launched a day before mine though so I rushed to get just the homepage up in time.

Love the official redesign, Exec is such an interesting service, it really deserved a solid, clean new design

Re: Redesigning Exec - Again

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Post by ZenJosh » Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 2:13 PM UTC

nathos wrote: post #9

rallison wrote: post #6

Nice redesign. It is definitely more intriguing, for me at least, than the current exec site. However, your current font choice for most of the text displays pretty badly on Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/ERhwXio.png Take a look at the small text (especially the e character), such as "Tell us what you'd like and we'll get an Exec on it within 10 minutes. Everyday from 9am to 9pm." I've verified this on two installs of Ch…

Looks like it's an issue with the particular version of Proxima Nova that's being @font-face embedded. I don't notice those problems with the version of Proxima Nova served up from TypeKit.

I think you'd be right on that one, Exec's iOS interface font is Proxima Nova and I used a bit of a dodgy @font-face generator since I don't have a typekit membership

Re: Redesigning Exec - Again

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Post by nathos » Thu, Feb 07, 2013, 2:38 AM UTC

ZenJosh wrote: post #14

nathos wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like it's an issue with the particular version of Proxima Nova that's being @font-face embedded. I don't notice those problems with the version of Proxima Nova served up from TypeKit.

I think you'd be right on that one, Exec's iOS interface font is Proxima Nova and I used a bit of a dodgy @font-face generator since I don't have a typekit membership

Keep in mind that embedding may not be allowed by your font license. An officially-licensed copy will come with the appropriate files (that are well hinted): http://www.fontspring.com/fonts/mark-simonson-studio/proxima...