This is for a company one of my buddies is starting up... here's the first set of mockups I sent to him. Some of the content has been changed to protect the business concept and copyrights. Any critique would be greatly helpful.
Aspects of the design were based off Facebook's newest interface... I'll edit some of this out but this is what I have at the moment.
And yeah... first thing I've submitted since October '08.
Having to pay to write an "official" critique (which is a bit silly imho, only requesting it should be a premium feature), here's my thoughts
For me, the black text in between the header and body doesn't work - it seems redundant and repetitive. I like the texture behind the images, and the overall colour - it's beautiful.
I think you could do well to simplify the first page a bit - it says "New user? Here's a slab of confusing text and pictures" - but then registration is split off to the other side. It took me a while to realise that if I was an existing user, I log in at the top - all that big text below was distracting me. I'd have tried to log in on the right side, expecting that "new user?" would take me to a registration page. Improving the balance and focus of this page, given it's your first chance to make an impression, make it a good one.
The circles are okay, but given the shapes used in the rest of the design, the ubiquitous rounded square may be a more comfortable fit. Circles are very circa 1990s
I'm a little confused by the logged in screen's navigation. You've got pretty icon nav on the right, but text nav on the left - is some of it a duplicate? There needs to be some clear way of showing you where you are within the site structure - don't let your users get lost in there! I'd also consider whether the large footer is as useful when logged in, or would be better to have a more subtle version.
Overall, great work - take or leave my thoughts as you wish
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