The City Wants Your Feedback On Their Home Page Concepts

The effort to redesign the City of Austin website has hit a significant milestone, and the team is now looking to the public for some feedback on proposed designs.

Three home page concepts are available for review:

There are plenty of options available to send the city your thoughts. You can go to Speak Up Austin to vote and leave comments, you can use Twitter with the hashtag #austingo, or go to Facebook and leave your comments there.

The three proposals are the results of several months of internal and external user research and included online surveys, focus groups and one on one interviews.

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By Jeff Beckham in Other on August 4, 2010 4:50 PM 0 Comments

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YoYoMa

Really? The designs are horrible and undermine the quality of the city? Hyperbole much?

Maybe some of you web design and visual communications majors (HA!) can elaborate on what you find so horrible about the designs instead of kindergarten assessments.

Also, how many times have any of you ever visited the City of Austin website in your life? Once? Never? I'm guessing never. This reeks of "oh my god, they're spending tax money on stuff I don't like!"

jtsmith01

Not to support any of the designs, but keep in mind this is a city site meant for citizens where they can find city service info. It's not really for visitors planning a trip. We already have that at http://www.austintexas.org

Johnnie

They should have talked to the agency that designed this instead - http://www.visitphilly.com/ or the agency that created this http://www.tnvacation.com/

Vanessa

Wow. I'm underwhelmed and shocked at the same time. "The three proposals are the results of several months of internal and external user research and included online surveys, focus groups and one on one interviews." Really? It took several months of research to come up with those designs? You have got to be kidding. Each of the proposed designs are horrible and they ALL undermine the quality of our city. I would hate to see any of them finalized. I hope you listen to the feedback because I'm sure it will be overwhelmingly negative. Looks like it's time to go back to the drawing board (literally).

kenneth1

Screw them. You have to set up an account just to vote. All three suck anyway. I just want a CoA homepage with links to all city departments, not some sort of Oprah-esque "Lifestyle Site."

nausea95

I think Design 1 is the worst, it looks hokey in my opinion.

Design 2 is slightly better than 3 because they dropped the big orange icons which are not very clear as to what their purpose is for written out links.

Unfortunately for me, Design 1 has the most votes.

Steven

those designs really make me question my time and money spent on pursuing a degree in visual communications, since, in this case, a blind orangutan has been hired to do what i went to school for.