Site Design: Motel (motel.is)
almost 7 years ago from Mark Johnson, Principle Designer at Mixpanel
almost 7 years ago from Mark Johnson, Principle Designer at Mixpanel
Matt McInerney <3 On the Grid + Good Bad Show are both excellent!
Matt is pretty great. You should check out Working File if you haven't given that a listen yet.
You just made my day!
Hey, I know that guy! Thanks for listening!
After 3 years, I still don't know which voice is Andy and which voice is yours...
Matt has a slight (but very endearing) lisp.
I really like the visual design. You also keep the story telling pattern on all subpages with great attention to detail. The only thing: why you stick main navigation to bottom? This might appear very unusual for most users.
Why did you go with the .is tld?
I kept trying to buy mo.tel but it wouldn't go through. Plus you can do fun naming conventions after .is
That load time is amazing!
Wasn't expecting instant. That was fast!
deviceful?
It's not, not a word.
Visualizated is 100% not a word. Nice layout though!
Interesting that they are using the header fixed to the bottom on desktop.
Interesting but not a very well known pattern by users. It took me way too long to find the navigation since it is at the bottom and close to the same color as the background.
I noticed that the homepage itself is essentially the navigation in story form. I can see the rational for the navigation bar being secondary to the content of the page in that case.
Hey, no big deal here but you spelled 'delightful' wrong on the front page. Again, no biggie.
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