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I think their lander is a good example for developers who need some help designing their landers. Just focus on two key things. 1. Understand the purpose of y
by jayair 17y ago
I think their lander is a good example for developers who need some help designing their landers.
Just focus on two key things.
1. Understand the purpose of your page and try to do the least possible. Ex: explain what the product does or create hype, ease of sign up or show benefits of product etc.
2. Reduce the noise on the page so you can accomplish it well. Do this by either increasing contrast for the interface elements or reducing the number of elements.
Too often people get caught up in making it pretty. So their priorities end up looking like:
1. Lets make it pretty
2. Tell them everything about our product
And so for a lot of developers doing design they fail at the first step and ultimately end up with a poorly designed page that is crammed with info.
Take some pointers from these guys and when in doubt "show less".
- romland 17y agoCall me silly for running NoScript in this day and age of Javascript on every page but it's not often that I get a moment of "WTF" when visiting a site. This one gave me just that. Took me a scroll down the page, then up again, then halfway towards pressing backspace... Then I remembered! Whitelist NoScript temporarily! Normally this comes pretty naturally to me because I can easily spot that a site is depending on Javascript or not. So my mileage varied.
- jayair 17y agoI'll be honest with you, I wasn't really thinking about the NoScript case when writing the post. I'm not sure if NoScript has a way of telling you that you might be missing something on the page. Kinda like how Click2Flash tells me if it is a sIFR. That would seem useful for minimal landers like these ones.
- weaksauce 17y agoThey should add a <noscript> tag to the page and say "Hey you should be using javascript if you want to see this page."