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Schuh.co.uk – redesigned

Quite a while ago, now – back in July 2008, in fact – myself and my esteemed colleague, friend and all-round niceguy Martin found ourselves looking at the Schuh.co.uk website. Back then, it was dire: any regular readers will know the various reviews I’ve written about the evolutions of their site.

Today I was going through a bunch of old files, and found OUR attempts at a redesign for Schuh. Given that there’s been a fair bit of time (and indeed they’ve changed their site since), I thought I’d share them with you.

Bearing in mind that these designs are pretty old now in the scheme of things, here we go!

A fair bit of thought went into these, including:

  • Overall function for the site (why were people there? what were the most popular lines? how would you show them?)
  • Keeping the brand greeny colours
  • Insert opportunities for cross-selling (right-hand navs)
  • How it could all be built & maintained

We rather liked it, but then we were young and naive. :)

P.s: All the above are copyrighted to us, but if you ask nicely and get our explicit permission, you can use them. ;)

P.p.s: the thumbnail gallery above was automatically generated by WordPress 3! How clever is that?! I love it.

2010
07/04
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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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2010
01/22
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