allang
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I'm Allan. Founder of Layervault.
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Comment · 4 years ago
I've been using TaskTXT for a few weeks and it's a highly polished and very useful bit of software. Nice!
Comment · 12 years ago
PSD.rb is also not intended for production use. Among other inadequacies, it's painfully slow.
That's what PSD Native is for: http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/82315160104/psd-rb-and-psd...
Comment · 13 years ago
Of course we wouldn't.
Comment · 14 years ago
If you're having tab problems I feel bad for you son...
Comment · 14 years ago
There are a bunch more that we hope to share soon. Glad you like this stuff!
Comment · 14 years ago
I'd imagine that it's a QA engineer's dream. Imagine never having to worry about spinning up some brach to test. That's kinda cool.
Comment · 14 years ago
The concept itself is pretty great, though I'm not sure if something like this has ever been implemented before. It seems like such an "of course" product that you'd expect it to already exist (though perhaps not as a really simple API).
Aside from the concept, the page design could use a little work. Here are 3 suggestions that'll improve your landing page big time.
1. You're doing a good job by sticking to (what seems to be) a grid, but you need to tighten the grid up. The last row is just hanging there, and you could definitely benefit from bringing more attention to it.
2. Designers would refer to this kind of padding and spacing as claustrophobic. You should consider padding things out a little more and adding breathing room. In the header area, try padding out above and below the headline. In the lower section with each feature callout, give it some top-padding.
3. Try reducing the contrast of the body text in the features section, as well as lowering the font size by 1px and increasing the line-height by 2px. For example: http://imgur.com/tw8QT
4. Be sure to vertically center the icons with the h3 text. They're off a little. It's nitpicking, but it counts.
5. The 45deg line in the header background is working against you. Your product is dead simple, your landing page is stripped to the bone. Keep with it — don't add needless textures.
Hope this was helpful and constructive.
Comment · 14 years ago
Not sure I agree that normal people need a ton of hand holding, but even that's true, those people will eventually disappear.
As for the image on our homepage — that's our app icon. Pretty funny that it's quite realistic (done by the talented folks at SoftFacade). We didn't think it was a huge contradiction, since it serves as more of a pretty picture than an interface.
That said, we probably will end up throwing it out when redesign our rather outdated external site :)