| 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. |
as to the product idea, there are a few places that have pulled it off in niche places (postcards for instance), and few high profile (similar) attempts in the late 90's (Royal Mail & MSFT via 'RelayOne'). we're out to make it easy for other devs to leverage our printing infrastructure with a no-bull approach to this :)