Website Design and Logo Proposals #1475

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tahoe-lafs · 2011-08-10T07:02:38Z

sirvaliance commented

2011-08-10 07:02:38 +00:00

I (sirvaliance) started working on ideas for a new Tahoe website and logo and have attached the preliminary logo proposal and screenshot of the website. The test site can be found at http://wy954.o1.gondor.io/, but may change at anytime. The website is a rough start and has only been tested using Chrome.

Initial reception (from IRC) for the logo was that the stencil font was too militaristic. As for the website, most felt that they would prefer minimalism and simplicity over the current setup.

The topic of logo design is still open in Ticket #1185.

I would prefer a discussion of ideas on what they would like to see from the redesign before I move forward. I would also appreciate the posting of links to other websites that are in the vein of what you are all looking for. This would include a color palette as well. The designs I made took into account that zooko preferred the black/red color scheme so the palette was greyscale/red.

I (sirvaliance) started working on ideas for a new Tahoe website and logo and have attached the preliminary logo proposal and screenshot of the website. The test site can be found at <http://wy954.o1.gondor.io/>, but may change at anytime. The website is a rough start and has only been tested using Chrome. Initial reception (from IRC) for the logo was that the stencil font was too militaristic. As for the website, most felt that they would prefer minimalism and simplicity over the current setup. The topic of logo design is still open in Ticket #1185. I would prefer a discussion of ideas on what they would like to see from the redesign before I move forward. I would also appreciate the posting of links to other websites that are in the vein of what you are all looking for. This would include a color palette as well. The designs I made took into account that zooko preferred the black/red color scheme so the palette was greyscale/red.

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sirvaliance commented

2011-08-10 07:03:55 +00:00

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This image is the logo proposal.

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sirvaliance commented

2011-08-10 07:04:49 +00:00

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Screenshot of the preliminary web design.

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zooko commented

2011-08-12 17:43:40 +00:00

Want: simple, human, professional, informative, good use of whitespace, quotes from satisfied users, pictures of faces (volunteers, and maybe faces of satisfied users, too?), humor (non-offensive), statements that are factual and precise, navigation that is well-organized so that people can find their way to more information or to other destinations: mailing list, source code, bug tracker, etc.

Don't want: militaristic, counter-cultural, politicized, offensive, over-selling, over-polished inhuman corporate bullshit, over-polished salesperson bullshit, web 2.0 shiny cartoony appearance, taking potshots at competitors, offensive language like the word "bullshit". Dark-background-light-text.

Web sites that I like: hm, um, I can't find any. :-) I like the appearance of http://apple.com but not the content. I like the content of http://lwn.net . I don't know if I like the appearance of http://lwn.net it is fine.

Want: simple, human, professional, informative, good use of whitespace, quotes from satisfied users, pictures of faces (volunteers, and maybe faces of satisfied users, too?), humor (non-offensive), statements that are factual and precise, navigation that is well-organized so that people can find their way to more information or to other destinations: mailing list, source code, bug tracker, etc. Don't want: militaristic, counter-cultural, politicized, offensive, over-selling, over-polished inhuman corporate bullshit, over-polished salesperson bullshit, web 2.0 shiny cartoony appearance, taking potshots at competitors, offensive language like the word "bullshit". Dark-background-light-text. Web sites that I like: hm, um, I can't find any. :-) I like the appearance of <http://apple.com> but not the content. I like the content of <http://lwn.net> . I don't know if I like the appearance of <http://lwn.net> it is fine.

zooko commented

2011-08-29 16:52:02 +00:00

sirvaliance: please let me know if there is anything else you need from me in order to do the next iteration of this.

exarkun commented

2020-01-16 20:48:43 +00:00

The linked site is gone and I assume that at this point if we wanted to revisit the Tahoe-LAFS logo/branding/etc we would be starting from scratch and not from this work.

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