Feedback for the mockup for Signature Printing

Mark and Elliott sat with me and gave me feedback on the design choices I made for the homepage of the website. Both sides were happy with including a fixed height parallax slideshow in the intro section. However, I had already tried putting a slideshow but unfortunately Squarespace’s functionality for the template only allowed a full screen background as a main section of the homepage.

We concluded that one background image with appropriate text will be enough to get across the main point of Signature Printing and decided to go for this approach. Also, Elliott suggested that the logo should be positioned on the left side and the navigation on the right rather than having both in the middle. This is a more traditional way of arranging the header but it looked better on this template. Regarding the services section, we discussed that we do not need icons to represent each service that Signature Printing provides. Mark emphasized on the fact that print consultancy is the main service which meant that it needs to be appropriately positioned the navigation. The recent projects section was going to be merged with the partners section and ensure that an optimal amount of content is presented on the homepage.

Overall the feedback was constructive and helped me get a better idea of what Mark and the rest of the team visualize as the new look for Signature Printing.

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