Redesigning Exec - Again • Hacker News Board

Hrm. I'd definitely put some forward and back buttons on there, or somehow indicate that it's part of a slideshow. The delay between slides was significant enough that I thought it was just a static page saying "Exec will do your grocery shopping".

In all honesty, I'm not sure that leading with that one specific statement is ideal. Many people would have pressed back before anything even happened.

Re: Redesigning Exec - Again

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Post by ZenJosh » Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 4:43 AM UTC

untog wrote: post #4

Hrm. I'd definitely put some forward and back buttons on there, or somehow indicate that it's part of a slideshow. The delay between slides was significant enough that I thought it was just a static page saying "Exec will do your grocery shopping". In all honesty, I'm not sure that leading with that one specific statement is ideal. Many people would have pressed back before anything even happened.

I'm kicking myself right about now, I played around with slide timing for the best part of 10 minutes to find an ideal pause, in the end I increased it by a third to make sure the slightly-heavier-than-they-should-be images had chance to load before the slide advanced.

I was planning on spending another couple of days optimizing the home page and completing work the rest of the application UI, which was almost complete, but EXEC released their official redesign earlier today so I had to rush it out. Guess that's just the way it goes sometimes

Re: Redesigning Exec - Again

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Post by rallison » Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 5:03 AM UTC

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 Chrome on Windows 7 (Version 24.0.1312.57 m and Version 26.0.1403.0 dev-m), so it might be worth looking into.

Re: Redesigning Exec - Again

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Post by gue5t » Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 5:20 AM UTC

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.

Re: Redesigning Exec - Again

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Post by Jauny » Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 5:30 AM UTC

that's some cool idea :) Kudos!

Re: Redesigning Exec - Again

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Post by nathos » Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 5:39 AM UTC

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.

Re: Redesigning Exec - Again

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Post by karenxcheng » Wed, Feb 06, 2013, 5:39 AM UTC

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!