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brassflowers.com

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It's pretty bad, but I will say in their defense that sometimes the shoemaker's kids go shoeless.

My business's website (http://robotmodehq.com/) is pretty terrible and horribly out of date. I've had a redesign in the works for several months, but since I'm swamped with client work already there hasn't been a ton of pressure to finish it. I just point future clients at my past client sites instead.

Edit: Well now that I put it out there, I guess I should probably finish up the redesign, haha.

Hey, I am regularly hired as a UX expert and my website is http://petervandijck.com

For what it's worth, I find your site pleasantly minimalistic. Most academics I know have a similar setup.

Thanks :) It gets the job done. I agree I'd never hire the link above because of pure bad taste.

Through simplicity I see you have avoided implementing necessary UI improvements.

Though I think your website would be 3x more enjoyable if you at least just indented the content a little bit.

3x more enjoyable? Really? Maybe 4x? By "necessary UI improvements" you mean they are necessary because....?

Well if you chose to use color or non default elements then you would have to make sure your customizations were also updated to still maintain usability.

That aside, I am curious to know if you disagree that putting padding on the browser would make viewing your site more enjoyable?

Slightly more "enjoyable", yes. 3x no. As long as http://www.useit.com is worse I'm ok ;)

Changing color isn't a "necessary UI improvement".

I was just calling out your language. Saying "3x" and "necessary" when that's not what you mean.

Lost me at "renowned".

Yea I should remove that. The reason it's there is that people often copy&paste that text for use in other places, where it helps :)

For what it's worth, you can "change the mood" of the website. http://brassflowers.com/?themedemo=sunrise

Oh my god that's even worse!

Found this link from a talk on Skyara

http://www.skyara.com/s/run-your-project-or-idea-by-a-uxui-e...

Couldn't help myself once I seen the stripy colored in background making the text unbearable to read.

In case someone is actually looking for a UI guy, here's some shameless self-promotion: http://nylira.com

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