Which design?

Alrighty, we at mudsplat studios are trying to come up with a suitable design for our launch on May 1. We are basically a hung jury on which design will be put up so we would like a few people to help us out, simply pick the one you like best :).

OK, here are the two designs that we've narrowed it down to. I've uploaded them for you guys to compare:

A: Concept 07 (beige and maroon) (http://www.mudsplat.com/concept-07.png)
B: Concept 10 (black and green) (http://www.mudsplat.com/concept-10.png)

I'm tired of designing new concepts, so, whatever the results of this is what we go with :)

::] krycek [::

By the way, please post saying which one you voted for, and why - and the things you like/dislike etc. :) The poll will be open for a couple of days.

option B looks exactly how I'd expect a multimedia design studio website to look - so option A gets my vote!

Even more so if "thinking differently" is a selling point...

Okay so they are both cool, but B gets my vote because it looks cleaner, sharper, and generally more design company like. A looks more like it belongs to a game support site, but they are both cool. Which will win?

Although both designs are brilliant, the beige/maroon design gets my vote :thumbsup:

And why? because I like... I like alot.

edit: let me expand. It looks strikingly more different and catchy. I can rememebr what it looks like, whereas I've nearly forgotten the black/green one already... and I voted only hours ago. The design is much more easy on the eyes and I like it ;) If it doesn't get the vote I'll be amazed.

maybe if you adjusted the colour scheme for design A to give a cooler (as in heat), more technological feel? blues? blue-green? grey?

B... why?? i dunno, just seems a lot more interactive and homely and the logo goes better with the name. Besides that, page is about as cool as me... :thumbsup:

I chose B. Although I love A, and I really really like B, I voted for B because it simply looks more professsional for a business website

Dude, they are both sweeet, so sweet, that i couldnt decide to vote (I flipped a coin :D).... I really do sugest that you have both designs available to the client, maybe some customisation area or something :D


Looks awesome....

Can we also see the other desings?

Dude, they are both sweeet, so sweet, that i couldnt decide to vote (I flipped a coin :D).... I really do sugest that you have both designs available to the client, maybe some customisation area or something :D

Looks awesome....

Can we also see the other desings?

well, in this instance, we ARE the client, as this is for our new site. :p

the other designs are not for show right now... sorry :)

::] krycek [::

You'll just have to wait till 1 May to have a look at our other work. This is just a little peep.

Much to Krycek's chagrin I must vote for A.

Why? Because it's original, clean and attractive. It has a very professional air about it while maintaining a futuristic look.

B is fine as well, but A runs it in to the ground. The logo in B reminds me of Nickelodeon. :)

Much to Krycek's chagrin I must vote for A.

Why? Because it's original, clean and attractive. It has a very professional air about it while maintaining a futuristic look.

B is fine as well, but A runs it in to the ground. The logo in B reminds me of Nickelodeon. :)


hey Jim lad... I'm not THAT fussed... glad people like both, and that my work isn't considered rubbish :) I'm glad that it's so hard to choose between the two; that means that they must both be quite good, and to have two good designs to choose between is better than not having any good designs at all :D

And now, having used up a dangerous number of my daily words of wisdom (which I horde jealously in case of a rainy day) I will await further comments :p

::] krycek [::

Jim Binford (http://www.codingforums.com/member.php?u=13471)... often known to his friends as 'One-Eyed Jim'. Why? Coz there's only one 'i' in 'Jim', obviously... :rolleyes:

I prefer A. It's a bit warmer in colourscheme and design, a bit more welcoming in tone, esepcially with the touch of that picture. If you gave me a text to read in those designs, I'd prefer the A one to B, because B is slightly more sterile and would not be as comfortable for easy reading.

A is very nice. However, the techy-looking "lines" juxtaposed with the classic color scheme and nature photography don't seem right here. I think it could be pulled off, but in this iteration, it feels forced.

B is very clean, and multimedia-company worthy. But, it's also a bit empty. It could use some fleshing out.

gonna have to go for B. A is nice, but by personal preference i don't really like marron-beige colour schemes. B is very clean and looks more spaced out. noticed the new logo too :)

I agree with what beetle said and went for B, mainly because it focused your attention towards the middle where the content will be and much tighter.

Good work!!
Look forward to see the finished site!!

Matt :thumbsup:

I must go with A!
Why? I love it
no seriously i do! its much better lookin BUT i would suggest changing the navigation a little bit. Other than that its perfect

good job :thumbsup:

A point about A though: I think the design might benefit from a few things: text could be in a more classical font, matching the style of the picture. I also think that spacing out the text lines and sightly increasing the font size would benefit that design.

Have a look at Macromedia and Apple for instance. Those are very professionally looking pages, exactly as they should be. They aren't using the oh-so-popular small font sizes that many web designers like to use, and they aren't saving space by cramming things together - on the contrary, they spread things out and leave lots of space, instead creating a structure so that they don't have to cram everything onto a small area.

I voted for "A".

A point about A though: I think the design might benefit from a few things: text could be in a more classical font, matching the style of the picture. I also think that spacing out the text lines and sightly increasing the font size would benefit that design.

:) I don't tend to worry too much about the text until I get to the markup and start playing with the CSS... the graphics are to give an idea of concept, and to show the overall design. Inevitably, the final result differs slightly.

::] krycek [::

A :cool:
B is nice, but it's been done a million times over.
A has impact, it creates interest, the eye is drawn all over the page instantly. :)
The only place the eye wasn't drawn to was the navigation. It feels a bit like "mystery meat" navigation IMHO.

I really liked the colours and line work of A, it holds my attention well. Something that very rarely occures these days.
:thumbsup: A :thumbsup:

Andrew.

<offtopic> How about getting rid of ithium's "Announcement" home page...I have sent three clients to look into ithium, they have all seen the "We just crashed" message and run off :rolleyes: </offtopic>

I dont like the general 'A' type sites with a meaningless graphic taking up a good portion of 'prime time real estate' on the page (& bandwidth to boot) (otherwise its quite nice) , so B gets it for me , cleaner as well.

<offtopic> How about getting rid of ithium's "Announcement" home page...I have sent three clients to look into ithium, they have all seen the "We just crashed" message and run off :rolleyes: </offtopic>

yeah, people have said about that recently. there's a new site on the way soon, and I have had little time, so I haven't been bothered about putting the old one back. but yes, enough of the announcement; the old page is back now. that'll have to do for now.

[ k ]

Maybe you can just have a area with two radio buttons, and then let the visitor change the CSS..... Cause both are to great to throw one away :D

Well chances are that the one that isn't picked will be marked-up anyways and if we get a client wanting something along those lines it's ready to be customized :)..

It clearly looks as though you are as much as undecided as we at Mudsplat Studios were. Those who haven't yet, please choose which you prefer.