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by meristem 2131 days ago
(Me: UX/ Human Factors/ Prod Management background) A big thing in design is "form follows function". The pages you designed skew heavily to the form side of that equation. From a pure UX POV there are so many visual elements competing for attention that I cannot tell you what is important. I can tell you my heart rate went up while I tried to understand the site, and that now there is cortisol floating around. This is not a " delight" neurochemical reaction.
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You can treat this as an art piece. This product is for designers mostly and one of my goals was to impress.
Congrats on launching this, I'm sure a lot of work has gone into it.

> This product is for designers mostly and one of my goals was to impress.

To me this doesn't make sense. Wouldn't designers not be capable of designing their own? If you have a set of prefab design assets for sale then I would assume that your target audience would be non-designers, and, if that was the case that format in which you present your product would be catered to that audience, not?

They usually take them as a base layer and then modify to what they need, saving lots of time. Here's where thePenTool comes into play
Wow, this reads to me as a version of "You are not a designer, you do not understand artistic goals". Could you clarify if I properly understood your response?
Not at all! I just tried saying that making a simple and "usual" website was not my goal. I wanted to make something crazy and that's how I got here
Designer here, yeah the visual style is pretty rad but I wouldn’t use this in practise due to how busy it all is.