Our design crew has been busy creating a beautiful draft of the plan page. This is the meaty part of whataplan that will present each of your wonderful plans. Important components are:

• a freely editable plan description
• plan details showing address and displaying it on a map
• the ability to like, dislike and share the plan
• uploading pictures
• ability to comment on plans
• suggestions of nearby plans and other plans that you might like

You will see on the right hand side that you can see which of our fellow planologists (users) also liked the plan opening up the floor for some interaction with like minded users. Yes please!

Yesterday’s post was nicely important: We presented our vision for WhataPlan! It was a long post and it’s probably easier to share our vision if you see it in front of you. So today…ah, wait there is a mild knock on the door, I better go an answer….guess who that was? It was an interested blog reader who told me to stop talking and just publish the new design of the WhataPlan landing page.  Immediately. No waiting around. So here it is! A big thanks to the guys at SAM IT for the hard work and Michael at The House for comments and guidance:

Landing page design

Click to enlarge the screenshot here:

The interested reader just called: He now wants a bit more background on what we think the user journey is going to be. I told him that I’m not 100% sure what a user journey is but I’m happy to have a go at sharing a few words on what our thinking is. He said that’s pukka. I don’t know what he meant, but this is what I told him:

Components
We think that the most important element of the homepage is the plan creator (the white box with the red stitching). This is where the user’s attention is drawn to. This is where the user chooses the category, the are of London and maybe a time of day for his/her plan which will be generated by hitting the “Make this plan” button.  We are also trying to go for a clean uncluttered design so the content preview columns (popular, recent and featured plans) have been degraded to the bottom of the page so to avoid confusing the user why she visited Whataplan.com: To discover awesome plans!

Generally, our principles in designing continue to be a sketchy and friendly look. We also like yellow.

What do you like about the design? Is it too yellow? What can we do better?

Please have a pleasant weekend!

Best,
Matthias

We are pleased to present our new logo! We were looking for a handcrafted design with a sketchy feel to it. What do you think? All thoughts are greatly appreciated!

Today we said goodbye to the old whataplan.com! After two years of being out there in the big wild world, it was time for it to get a well deserved break. You will be pleased to know that the website is in good care with us and we have already started with some reengineering, rejigging and redesigning. We are hoping to be able to share some new features with you shortly!

You will see that whataplan.com presents you with a temporary holding page. You can sign up there to become one of our first beta testers when the site is ready to go live again.

Finally a big thanks must go to Michael Murdoch at The House for a super quick turnaround on the holding page and some beautiful handcrafted graphics.