[yugyug]

hey I've done a new design for my website which I think is heaps better than my last one. its pretty simple and as its needs to be bilingual theres hardly any text just a resonably small selection of my work, mostly recent. would anyone like to go and have a look and post a comment?

yugyug.com

[Yose]

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Well, it's good that you're trying to find some different way of interacting with the viewer but I found it down right frustrating. Your idea can work but you need to give the viewer more support or options to get around the site.

Cheers,

[yugyug]

well I am trying a novel way of navigating - but I know what you mean. I guess i'm trying to find something thats a bit playful and requires a bit of random clicking. I don't mind that in sites that look nice and its a way to get users to see a bit more than normal....unless that get frustrated that is

but maybe I'll add something to guide the user a bit......anyone else?

[andi*pandi]

agreed that there's a bit too much mystery going on. a name would be helpful.

I dislike the rollovers for the sections, because it implies clickability, and they don't. You roll over the top row and the menu appears the row below, you click and nothing happens. And the images that divide the sections--if they do that--don't seem to say "here's what's behind me."

the hidden clicks are fine with a clue that they're there, beyond the rollover. Fix the above and I'd be fine with a little mystery for those thumbnails. however, when we find a hidden gem, why should we care? what did you do in relation to the stencils? design them, photograph them, do the illustration that the metalworker turned into the stencil--what? I don't like just getting an image popup.

and you need to crop/resize your PDFs, too big, shouldn't be showing crop marks.

[art_director]

i went to have a look. to be honest it's too much work for my taste. i'm busy and am not looking for mysteries in the websites i visit. i want info delivered fast and without a hint of work unless it's REALLY COOL. like earth shattering cool.

i clicked on one link that brought up an identity of sorts. every page had crop marks on it. to be honest it didn't look like design elements. if you just included the crop marks by accident i'd get them off the page, it looks a little hacky to include them.

my final comment is that i don't want to look at your crotch (images in upper right). somehow i doubt your target will either.

[yugyug]

cool great feedback - I'm gonna tweak the navigation.

The problem with adding explanatory text is that it wil be read by japanese ppl (i'm based in tokyo) and my translation skills are not up to much yet. Hence I left crop marks on some of the work to indicate a printed job. but I'll put my two brain cells in to work and see what comes up.

and art diecter - thats not MY crotch! - but point taken.

cheers

[art_director]

sorry, no offense meant.

[yugyug]

none taken - I'm the one that put it there after all.

[EFFENDI]

It's definitely Japanese.

Navigation is a nightmare. Like some others have said, the hidden theme can work, but in this application, it's too "artsy". By artsy I mean distracting. I find the small grungy/blurry images slightly irritating - the thumbnail idea is so overdone, there is little indication as to what you are actually looking at.

Maybe I don't get it, but the whole concept seems like it is a piece of standalone art, left to the user to interpret. Keep in mind what you are actually designing here, a website. What is the information you are trying to get across? Is that information the focus of the site, or is the design the focus? I think with some tweaking, it can be a cool concept. But there is something to be said for having a USEABLE, efficient design. Within the framework you have set up here, you can still maintain a great deal of artistry, the site in and of itself looks ok, but use the art effectively to get across what you are trying to say.

[normdzn]

Hi Y'all,

I think it could really be cool if the images were a little more recognizable. I mean, you know those collages with little pictures making one big picture. But not as obvious. I think you have something goin' there. Cheers.

[kyles_mac]

Holy hell.

Much like everyone stated before. I like the concept, it just needs to be worked on a little bit more. Another little thing I didn't like was that I was forced to download the pdf if I wanted to see the work. I would possibly work on that in a different way. Maybe make it an image or something that can be viewed and then give them an option to download.

[cgmpowers]

I thought it reminded me of that matching game where you try to find two tiles that match..

Its very irritating to think I'd have to hunt to find what I was looking for...

Christopher