Prelim work

[estrellau]

I decided to make them minimalistic because It is a school page and I wanted to keep it easy to navigate.

[Kassandra]

Hi Estrella,
I love that you kept it minimal because it looks clean. The photos you used still give it the artistic quality with the dynamic use of lines. I really like your first design, especially how you staggered the text in the second web page layout. Maybe incorporating that throughout the pages would give it some dynamic and eye movement . Great job!

[Krueckl]

Hi Estrella,
I also worked on recreating the Yale website. Not an easy website to navigate! I personally like your first design the best that has the grey background. The information is all there and easy to navigate. I think that adding the logo to the site is an important factor as well. I love the image of the line designs you used and that it is an minimalistic yet creative approach. Nice job!

[kmohara5190]

Hi Estrella,
I think I like your first design the best because of the contrast of the white, black and gray. It makes your design look super artsy! The only thing I think you could change is how minimal it is, I think you could add some buttons or text to limit the empty space. Good job!

[Instructor]

Oh, super minimalist! An interesting design choice, Estrella. It paid off here.

I like your blue designs best. They seem to have a little more contrast because the blue is darker. It makes for a better backdrop for the images, I think. Your images areas are large and will lend themselves to showing off their exhibitions and student artwork. Everything stands out better against it. I also like the prominent "Yale" on the homepage of the blue ones. I actually don't mind that you're using hamburger navigation on your computer layout pages, just because it goes better with your minimalist design ethic here. Minimalist designs are made or broken on their use of margin. You've used it quite skillfully here. There's a lot of space to be sure, but nothing really fragments. You also use alignment very well here, making all sorts of interesting edges and lines just by your placement of text and objects.

I'd recommend seeing what the design looks like with an image or two more, especially on the inner pages. I'm also wondering what it'd look like with a hard edged sans-serif type. I think that would enhance the minimalism. Make sure to size your topic buttons on your inner page to the longest word or phrase that's in them. "Brochures & Documentation" is a little crowded on the left and right edges. Make sure also that the text in those buttons are vertically centered.

Good work!

[Hamistani]

Hello Estrella,
These look great! I really like the slate gray design that you have. These look clean and minimalistic. I love the font choices, and I like how you arranged the page. I think I would incorporate more art into the design, in order to show off the work of the students. I would also make the font a bit smaller in the navigation buttons, some of them look a bit crowded. Great job!

[jacklyn_yamine]

Hi Estrella,
I really like your minimalist designs. I like best the set of designs that have the gray and dark blue color backgrounds with the fluid lines as images in them. I love how you put the school's contact info on the image and how you are using type on the layout as a whole, keeping things very neat, clean, and easy to read. It seems like you want the colors to change depending on the device it is showing on (?). I would try to stick to one or the other, but they both look great with the simple white background images you are using. Great job with the minimalistic approach

[Mal-Festio]

Hello Estrella,

When I first got into your post and looked at your first one, I thought that is the one you should go with. It looks very modern and clean so I thought it was fitting for the Yale School of Art. I can also image the blue and grey made a transition when you between pages. The second one is also very interesting as well, I think the image with the wall of painting is an interesting way to view the artwork.

[it's_crysta]

Hi Estrella, I like how this is just like, the complete opposite of what Yale's art website looks like right now. It's very clean and minimal. Good work!

[ItsAllisxn]

Hi Estrella,

Nice work on simplifying this website! The original is definitely an eyesore. Personally, I like the grey layout, it helps to bring out the image. It really feels like an art website. My suggestion on your homepage is to bring down the "contact us" part of the layout so there's more room for the image. Great work!