SuavvyInvites.com Launched. Thoughts?
Friday, 27 March 2009 @ 10:27
I just launched a wedding design service called Suavvy Invitations. I’d be interested to hear what anyone and everyone has to say about the design and/or functionality. Like most personal projects, I already have many ideas for improvements that will come later, but any feedback will only make it better.
Thanks in advance.
Great work and thanks for sharing it with us. The site is well designed, both graphical and from a marketing perspective.
The site is a pinch too pastel for my taste, but it’s probably well designed for it’s primary audience, which isn’t my gender. As a designer I did care about my wedding invitations (I designed them), but most men don’t. I would come up with a few alternate page designs. The same table and ribbon get old to me with it on every page. Your link hover state is too light of a blue. It’d be great if the map on the free engagement website were real so that you could zoom and pan.
I like that you have added an active state to your buttons, but something isn’t right about the shadow. They seem to get lost. There are also some buttons on the site that are shorter and do not have an active state. Most people won’t notice that, but little things like that will help polish it up. I’d include an address and a phone number on your contact page. People are a lot more comfortable putting in their credit card when they know you’re not being run from a Russian internet cafe. I’d love to hear more about your company on the about page as well. Right now there’s just half a sentence about the company and the rest o the page is full of more marketing. The stock icons also don’t seem to match the illustration style of the rest of the site. The gray “form box” that appears atop the table on a few pages is also awkward. It feels like it’s going to slide off.
Actually, I would have to agree with wade. The site is a tad too pastel–and I am a girl. It doesn’t feel to me like it really screams “WEDDING INVITATIONS” when I get there.
I might also suggest a bounding box…I’m reading wade’s comments about things “sliding off the page” and I think have a distinct boundary for your site rather than leaving it wide open and white might help with that.
I like the overall design…although I’m not sure how well your logo fits in with what you’re trying to accomplish. It seems a tad “messy”–check that and realize that what I mean is that it’s color splashes and not an actual mess– for a company that is going to be making a person’s wedding invitations. Despite the ever changing tide of the times, women still expect a certain level of elegance to a wedding invitation and if the first thing they see is that logo, they might not go much further. Perhaps a different font???
Also, continuing with the pastels…the pastels are hard on the eyes, plain and simple…especially with some white text and that white background. It’s a headache waiting to happen. I would suggest a darker blue–maybe more midnight bluish and keep the pink.
I agree that you need more information about your business, your creds and how to contact you. I don’t know a single woman who would “ask for more information” about wedding invites through an online form…if we can’t talk to someone over the phone about our invites or meet in person, then the deal is broken. I know for us designers that it’s much easier to be able to just deal over email…but this is the most important day in a woman’s life.
I would also suggest using a different font family for the entire site overall. What you’re currently using is too difficult to read.
But again…I do think that overall it’s clean well organized.