How we are going to redesign HotGloo (Part1)
Lately we’ve been busy planning and wireframing the new HotGloo website, developing a new account panel and testing the “all new” real-time collaboration. We’re far away from done but we thought we’d love to share some impressions from our current workflow with you.
Step1: Choose a Theme
We are really digging our current design: reduced and clean, but we wanted to add more depth and a visual brand communication since quite some time, something our users can relate to. It all kicked off when I was watching 2001 Space Odyssey again. I was immediately hooked by the beauty and mysticism of space. This thrilling atmosphere and the deep desire, within a lot of us, longing for an intergalactic adventure is what makes almost all space relevant topics so fascinating.
And it turned out that space seems to be the perfect analogy for what we see as our vision here at HotGloo. Let me expalin why. Since we claim that HotGloo is the Future of Wireframing, what could be more appropriate than the space theme itself.
Step 2: Identify key-visuals
We had the idea of a spaceship or a space shuttle sitting in the new header, but Uwe, who is doing all the illustrations for the redesign, told us that space shuttles and spaceships are so 20th century. Well I guess he was absolutely right. So we came up with the idea of a spaceplane.
First scribbles, which appeared to be too comic like and a bit too cheesy.
First prototype of the HotGloo spaceplane.
Final version of the spaceplane, with loads of small details.
We are not exactly sure where we are going to put this beauty, testing a few layouts right now, but I’m sure we will find a proper space for it on the new website.
More infos soon. We are all really excited about this, hope you will like it too!
- Godspeed HotGloo
Continue reading: Part2
I heard Balsamiq is coming out with a version that does 4D. That’s one extra D. It wireframes relative to space/time. Try to do a mockup of the TARDIS and the universe craps its pants.
And I thought we’d overcome the cold-feature-war