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The landing page of your site is a chance to grab people's attention with something that they are likely looking for. You are choosing to not grab their attention with anything, and when you don't demonstrate why staying is interesting, people will leave.
As it stands now, your landing page amounts to a menu. I don't see anything that you are gaining by ...
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37signals has a great example of how you can make this interesting for the user and help them understand your story.
No offense to the HR professional who commented (though, it wouldn't be the first time I've offended HR), a history page that starts with the present is probably too much about what you want to say. Your current achievements are, hopefully, ...
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I worked on the Information architecture for a similar app so here are some pointers which can help
Define the primary objective of the app. I know its feature rich but it still will have a primary objective such as enabling hotel bookings or finding hotels
Define the secondary objectives of the app
Check how the app handles these primary and secondary ...
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As an HR professional, reverse chronological is ALWAYS the preferred order when looking for information. I don't need (or want) irrelevant information.
I think you should determine how you want the information to be interpreted. Is it a story? From day 1. Is it a company update? Latest, first. You may need to evaluate who your audience is, as well.
The ...
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Who is Casey Kidd? Why should I care? Oh great, another college kids senior web portfolio project- There aren't enough of those gunking up the internet.
Unfortunately, these are just a few of the thoughts that went through my head when your site came up. Unless I knew who you are, or deliberately searched for you or your music, I would instantly bounce ...
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It's hard to say without having a possibility to compare both versions of the site, but some quick thoughts.
Optimize the site for intent - try to put on the homepage something that would attract users, what they came for. In this case, it should be music. Try to create a playlist that would let users stay on the homepage longer and make them interested in ...
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That boucing stuff is scary. The user is never going to expect that on first time and it is useless when they get used to your application.
I cannot prove that idea is not going to work though. I would propose you do something like this:
The tiles are within a non ended canvas that suggest there is something else when scrolling.
That said : I am pretty ...
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There are quite a few ways to communicate below the fold content.
The most natural way I have seen is just have content overflow the fold, so some part of it is visible while some is missing. This just tells you there is stuff down there.
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If you are dealing with plain text, ...
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It looks like a reverse engineering of Information Architecture of the application. Break down the application to its basic elements and then piece them together based on functionality.
You can start with a rudimentary hierarchical breakdown of the features.
List down whatever you action items (links/buttons/etc.) see on the home page
Select one link and ...
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The information should be given in the order of importance. The vast majority of the time this will be reverse chronological, as more recent events are usually more important.
However if older events are more important (for example if the page is stressing a rich history), then you should sort it chronologically.
Here is an example from Royal Delft that ...
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What do the people visiting the company history page want to read? What information is the company trying to communicate to those people?
(Is a company history page even needed?)
The answers to those questions is going to guide you to the best implementation for this particular page.
I've had some clients where:
The company history has been prose ...
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I do agree that users will tend to scroll regardless of any indication, however if you still want to use any sort of indication, this is way I suggest.
The fold is a good idea when you have a fixed screen, however, the apple products have now many screen sizes (iphone5 and the ipad)so it will be harder to calculate the grid. Is possible to do, just have ...
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