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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, these are really attractive.  I hope the ideas from this get into
Launchpad.

I'm looking at these on a 12in laptop and it's quite interesting to
see the impact of them viewed scaled to fit on the screen vs actual
size.  These things tend to make what's above the fold very clear and
often just composed of descriptive text, which is quite interesting.

A consequence of this is that it's not so obvious what you can do on
any particular page.

In particular on the home page the only option is "get started" and
(much less bold) "find projects."  "Get started" actually means "host
your project on Launchpad" but I think many users actually want to
"get started" with asking for help with Launchpad or reporting a bug
in Ubuntu.  So perhaps we can either make the search box just do a
global site search, or add some buttons for particular tasks.

I think there was a general design trend towards deemphasizing the
Launchpad branding and emphasizing the project that lives there: there
is no top "Launchpad" branding on the site at the moment.  I find this
a bit weird myself because there is rather little control for the
individual project at the moment.

I realize it's not your main point here but I wish the site search
would go back up to the top.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>