alamy
Site redesign: Alamy.com
In the latter months of 2009 Alamy.com, a stock imagery site, ran a competition to redesign their homepage.
That in itself was all well and good: throwing it open to the public and offering cash to the winner is a great way of engaging with their users and – incidentally – getting shitloads of design options created for what is essentially a fraction of the price they’d have had to pay an agency (if you were to include all their associated fees etc).
Anyway, one of the flaws of the competition – in my personal opinion – was that it insisted one use the imagery from the Alamy collection. No real problem in that, but it meant that in order to enter a design which featured imagery, one had to buy the imagery from the site.
That annoyed me, since I was quite willing to create free designs for them – but I’m damned if I’m about to be forced to pay for the privilege. As such, I abandoned the competition with literally a few hours to go ’till the closing date.
Perhaps egotistically, I thought the designs I came up with were ok…so I’ve decided to put them up here to be scrutinised, criticised, and generally pulled apart by anyone who has an opinion – and that should mean you, whoever you are.
Want to see them? Reckon it’s about time I got critique’d myself after I’ve been reviewing all these websites? Fancy an insight into what kind of twisted logic my mind goes through? Read on!
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