11 comments

  • Ian WilliamsIan Williams, over 7 years ago

    Holy Jesus Christ I just downloaded 25MB for that.

    11 points
    • Anthony KeoAnthony Keo, over 7 years ago

      I noticed I took a while for me too.. How do you find out a website's size? I'm on chrome.

      1 point
      • Ian WilliamsIan Williams, over 7 years ago

        It's in the Network tab in Developer Tools.

        If you're on OS X, press [option + command + i] then click Network.

        0 points
    • Hans YadavHans Yadav, over 7 years ago

      Yup. Lots of big images being loaded.

      Emma, for better performance, you can scale down some of the images, compress them (using something like TinyPNG), and maybe lazy load them so they're not all downloaded at once.

      Big page

      1 point
  • Matthew KosloskiMatthew Kosloski, over 7 years ago (edited over 7 years ago )

    Great looking website, but wow

    5 points
  • E BensleyE Bensley, over 7 years ago

    Lovely looking site when it loads, but I left before that point the first time and only let it finish after reading the comments. Some form of loading indicator would be a great addition to stop people doing something similar.

    1 point
  • Jeremy TreudenJeremy Treuden, over 7 years ago

    Nice work, Emma! I like the overall style of the site. I would, however, recommend adding in some hoover states on the 3 project tiles / images you have listed, as well as hover states on the Twitter, LinkedIn, and email icons. Right now, it almost feels / appears as if you can't click on anything when fist coming to the site. I really like the active / current states that you are using for the 3 project tiles / images... maybe do something similar (with a simple animation-in) on hover?

    Just a thought. It might be good to give some simple feedback to the user so they know the site is performing properly and so they know what they can and cannot click on.

    1 point
  • Noah C, over 7 years ago

    The splash page seems a bit jarring of an experience to have / sit through. The work is great.

    However, I feel there are just some minor tweaks I would suggest.

    The hero mockup in the Fitstar product seems awkward because the devices aren't scaled to one another (apple watch looks huge). Also in the Kubmo project — the typography seems to be a little too big. Size down a little and it would look refined and like a premium product.

    Hierarchy wise the social icons compete with the logo and message of Kubmo.

    "Growing a Global Community of Women in Technology" could be smaller than the logo and I feel it doesn't need a bounding box around it — maybe text on top of the image. It probably wouldn't need a drop shadow either on the text.

    Overall good stuff. If you're doing product design focused, I highly recommend talking about your process of how you got toe the finished product.

    0 points
  • Jon WeissJon Weiss, over 7 years ago (edited over 7 years ago )

    Compressing those images could go a long way. Try saving for web in PS and then running them through something like ImageOptim (https://imageoptim.com/) - that might help out some of your speed issues.

    Great looking site, Emma. Nice work :)

    0 points
  • David DarnesDavid Darnes, over 7 years ago

    Really liking the colour choice and big imagery. However there are some loading issues. Sorry to go over what others might have said but maybe the content should be split into separate pages? Then the initial load time wouldn't be so heavy, thus negating the need for a loading screen as well.

    The style is certainly there, it just needs some shuffling around :)

    0 points
  • Gabriel Eden, over 7 years ago

    Nice site! You could use 100vh to make sure the picture background takes up the full viewport height.

    Also on my 1280x800 screen the mail icon is cut off because of this media query:

    @media (min-width: 1200px) .container { width: 1304px; }

    emmalawler.com

    0 points