* Mark Keating <[email protected]> [2013-07-23 10:50]: > The nice chaps at Evozon have recently been making design mocks for > a bunch of Perl sites and they have come up with a fresh look for > Catalyst. Take a look and let me know what you guys think. > > http://www.mdk.me.uk/community/mocks/Catalyst.jpg
Well it looks cool. But the entire first page is nothing but a starry sky with 2 sentences worth of information on it. In general, information density in this design is really low, and most of it gives me a headache if I try to read rather than just take in the prettiness. Test that yourself: try to really read a few paragraphs of the prose on that mockup. Then switch to the http://catalystframework.org/ and do the same there. Which one hurts your eyes and which one soothes them? Then what is this design trying to accomplish? The goal that Tobias’ design was created to meet was to sell people on Catalyst at a glance, by providing answers to the questions a) what is Catalyst, b) why would anyone want it, and c) how to get started, all in as little space and as few words as possible. Was there any similar goal formulated for this new design? Was it met? Furthermore – is this is supposed to be developed into a site-wide design implemented beyond the front page? Or is this just swapping out another look for the landing page shared with absolutely no other part of the site that is even just one click away, like all the previous “redesigns”? Changing the looks on the landing page is the easy part, making something that works for the entire site and is implemented on the entire site is what’s necessary and what has yet to happen, I think ever since Catalyst has existed. Design isn’t just putting a coat of paint on it… Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
