31 Mar, 2009

Our website gets a new look

Posted by: DS In: genieinteractive| ui / design

Finally our revamped site goes live today.  Congratulations to the team that worked on this and made this happen. It has been overdue for long time now and am glad the wait is over.

The interesting thing in this design is that we have done away with the concept of  homepage.  Yeah you read it right - No Homepage!

Pick any page on the site and that could be “your homepage” for the site. The operative word here being “your” and that pretty much represents the idea behind this experiment.  A lot of visitors come to our site looking for various services / products we offer and not everyone is looking for the same. We thought if we could somehow present that information to them in almost like a homepage fashion then it would make it that much easier. So rather than having a conventional homepage that would aggregate information snippets and present an overview, we decided to have a site where each page would specifically talk about a particular service/product or our work in detail but at the same time have information snippets that would present an overview of the company. Thereby making every single page a potential homepage.

Let us know what you think of the design, would love to get some comments and thoughts.

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5 Responses to "Our website gets a new look"

1 | Sunil Gopal

April 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 am

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I surely welcome the change :) its been long pending i guess… much better and pleasant look and feel.

As a UX guy I would like to see if someone gonna react to the new concept of ‘no homepage’. At least in the product I design the homepage / landing which is called the Dashboard is of prime importance. more thoughts would be appreciated.

2 | DS

April 2nd, 2009 at 9:06 am

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Yeah its an experiment and we are waiting to see the reactions :)

3 | JamesBond@bond.bnd

May 25th, 2009 at 7:22 pm

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It is a worst design. There only boxes, i dont see any creativity. Guys please dont boost yourself, you have to do a lot. And i know your madam very well, a complete money minded personality, Anyways best of luck for your future..

4 | DS

May 26th, 2009 at 9:54 am

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Hi James Bond (or whatever you choose to call yourself),

We are okay with you criticizing our design but would have appreciated it if you had refrained from making personal remarks as this is not the platform for it. Also, your comment would have had more meaning and vaue if you had not been a coward and decided to hide in anonymity under a pseudonym. Does not say much about you.

Were you asked to leave for non-performance ? :)

5 | Aradhana

May 26th, 2009 at 10:03 am

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Hi Sunil, thanks for the feedback. I agree, it was long overdue, had also been on the boards for awhile:) Did you see a ‘no homepage’ anywhere else?

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