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Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

#3
I think I am not the first ine to suggest this, but if you have a company blog, put a small section at the top, where you a) state what your company is about and b) link to your main page. If my first contact with a company is through a blog, I always will want to check first what the company is about, to decide if I want to spend time reading. If you put barriers in my way during that step, I might not even bother at all.

Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

#4
It's a fine article, but the blog could use a bit of UX tweaking too. I have no idea what prismatic is, and the lack of a link to their homepage from their own blog seems like an obvious flaw, which i've seen really often in most website/startups blogs.

Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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post #3

I think I am not the first ine to suggest this, but if you have a company blog, put a small section at the top, where you a) state what your company is about and b) link to your main page. If my first contact with a company is through a blog, I always will want to check first what the company is about, to decide if I want to spend time reading. If you put barriers in my way during that step, I might not even bother a…

Hey, your point is right on. We'll be adding all that stuff shortly.

Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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post #3

I think I am not the first ine to suggest this, but if you have a company blog, put a small section at the top, where you a) state what your company is about and b) link to your main page. If my first contact with a company is through a blog, I always will want to check first what the company is about, to decide if I want to spend time reading. If you put barriers in my way during that step, I might not even bother a…

Great point. It's always easy to assume context where there is none! :)

Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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Looks great! The underlying service is fantastic so it's good to see the web UI updated. I'd be curious to see some of the other design options they looked at.

I have a few questions:

1. Why is the nav on the right? When I'm scrolling through articles I keep wishing the main content was more centered.

2. Did you guys look at doing a serif font for the header and a sans serif font for the summary? I feel like it would separate the two more.

Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

#9
OT, Prismatic is impressive in the choice of articles it displays. So much so that i have noticed it's getting a bit creepy. On some days when i happen to open a lot of pages on a particular topic, Prismatic will start showing me related stories. So is it tracking histories? Do all such services track online usage?

Re: Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process

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post #4

It's a fine article, but the blog could use a bit of UX tweaking too. I have no idea what prismatic is, and the lack of a link to their homepage from their own blog seems like an obvious flaw, which i've seen really often in most website/startups blogs.

Another commenter pointed this out, it's a fair criticism and we'll make an update to the blog accordingly.
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