Common Challenge

Yup! So we did update our webpage after all. It’s been a while since the promised date of 31/03/2008 but we were busy designing the GUI for the beta release of dooyt.com. As you may have noticed the colors and the logo changed. Well… this time in fact it is a logo, not just a mockup done in PowerPoint.

Our idea behind the logo was that it should somehow show the ‘community’ aspect of dooyt.com. In our (or at least my) opinion the three little people depict just that - the community. In the world of web 2.0 an active community is by far the main and most important factor to website’s success. We wanted to express that. Now that we’ve underlined the community, our responsibility is to make sure the contributors are active. That’s probably not going to be easy but we’ll try our best We think that the design of and the concept behind dooyt.com will help in reaching that goal. Of course we invite everyone to submit their opinions and ideas once the beta starts. Now it just plain doesn’t make sense (too early) but if you already wish to send us some comments, please do so under this entry.

Moving on to the second change on www.dooyt.com, you may expect the final website to be in a blue/gray theme. Why did we choose to go that way? Well… First of all we wanted the design to be ‘light’ and easy to the eye. We were also inspired by designs and colors of webpages like www.apple.com or www.rememberthemilk.com which are both easy to user’s eyes and very functional. We also wanted to avoid a very popular web 2.0 trend of using intense colors and thus creating an eye-candy look and feel.

We will write more on the functional design of dooyt.com later once we’re close to finalizing it.

I guess that’s it for now. Stay tuned for more updates from blog.dooyt.com!