WWDC 2013 Alerts

Hey Paul,

After reading this post, I actually sent you an email via your contact form on your site with a couple of suggestions, but I'll repeat them here for the sake of community discussion.

My biggest suggestion was that you consider repositioning the Google web form higher up on the page; it's being your primary call to action means that your user should not have to scroll down to see it, or wonder how to take action. Consider repositioning it towards the top of the page. Again, this is a minor suggestion, but you wouldn't believe how much it changes the hygienics of your webpage.

I'm curious to see what advice others have to offer about this site. Again, don't hesitate to let me know if you'd like any other suggestions or help in designing your WWDC site.

Best,

J.T.

Here are a few things that might improve the design.

• Add a background
  • Check out: subtle patterns
• The better page hierarchy
  • Check out: Understanding Visual Hierarchy in Web Design
• If can style the Google Drive sign up form, it could use some love
  • Check out: Designing Modern Web Forms with HTML5 & CSS3

Going off of the suggestions that James made, you might check out Robin Williams' C.R.A.P. principles of design. Mike Rundle wrote an excellent article about the C.R.A.P. principles over on the Treehouse blog that you might find interesting!

You might also check out Robin Williams' book The Non-Designer's Design Book over on Amazon.com. It's a very well written book and offers a lot of good advice!

+1 for The Non-Designer's Design Book

Also there's also the excellent A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web

Images are rapidly and (usually) more easily absorbed than text. Along with what J.T. mentioned about the positioning of your call to action, your "Sold Out" image could give users the impression that tickets aren't available anymore. That's because they'll see the image before they read/undestand the "remember last year?" Aesthetically, you could also work on the page's balance/weight a bit, and provide some clear headline/tag of what the page is for quickly and concisely. Good work!

Thanks for all the advise everyone!