This is what it should look like
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 1:20PM by @hey_Indy
The English Premier League is an absolutely huge product today all around the globe. With top football clubs in the league having such a global reach, the club’s website is often the best way to connect with the thousands, if not millions of fans across the globe.
As a football fan, I know only too well the raw emotion the game can evoke and understand the want for fans to interact with the club and be accessible to as much information as possible. This includes checking fixture lists, buying match tickets, reading match reports and learning about any injury news. With ever improving broadband speeds, video content is being used more, and ubiquitous social media channels also can now be better integrated into websites.
I decided to create a concept site for Tottenham Hotspur in which I wanted to show my own processes of web design. Typically in a large scale project I would hope to be part of a large team consisting of project managers, creative directors, UX designers and other designers. However for this self imposed project I decided to wear all hats to come up with my own vision. I created something I feel is visually more appealing, and visually rich.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a purely conceptual project.
For full size images and more, visit Indy's blogs:
http://heyindy.com/design/tottenham-hotspur-concept-website
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Tottenham-Hotspur-Concept-Website/2570341
Reader Comments (29)
That's quality, I prefer the look and feel to the official sites.
I've always felt navigation on the official site was appalling, especially if you are trying to find anything out about loyalty points or clubcash. Lets hope the club are watching and give you a call.
Very good and much better than the actual Spurs site, which I also think it quite a poor site!
You should send the club a link to your page.
Looks better than the the official site...
I like the layout and concept, so much so I'd like to see it come a reality. Particularly player profiles and team news. Overall sleek and as stated above, it's way more visually appealing. It'd be good to have a site that reflects the team we've got now.
Excellent concept indy the player profile section looks very professional and I really like the game analysis. My main grape with the official site is that its too clunky and a bit outdated, ive noticed a few other prem teams use the same format. Also if the ticketing section can be modernised something like virtual venue the Vancouver Whitecaps have done.
Impressive stuff
Quality stuff. Too much Younes though, put me right off! :-)
The regular site seems too hodge-podge and strung together. Your consistent styling gives it a classier touch. Well done.
Very nice. That's a lot of data in a clear modern layout.
Hope you get somewhere with it. I'd definitely like somewhere like that to browse every day.
I'd buy that for a dollar
Less is more, spurs site is pretty bad as is.
Very nice concept. I remember reading an article on the BBC website recently about branding at Tottenham and it said they were shortly going to revamp the website to make it more accessible to the fans. I'll try and find a link....
Very classy concept though, clean and sleek. You should be doing some consultancy work them Indy!
Brilliant. Has a very modern feel to it. Much better than the current site.
nice.
that's a lot of time and effort to put into something with no guarantee of any financial reward.
hopefully the praise from these comments have made it worth while.
i too think it looks very neat, modern, clean and slick. all words that i now associate with the new tottenham hotspur.
let's hope the club are watching.
And now watch as the club pull you on using the logo and the name without their allowing it!!!
Should of hand drawn the logo and called it Tottingham Hotspur.
Seriously good effort though, I'm impressed.
Cheers Spooky, and thanks for all the great comments. Actually enjoyed doing it, as it's the mighty SPURS. Don't expect nothing to come from it really, I'm sure the new site will be amazing. I hear they are due to release it this year, not much of it left now!
This was done in a few days so I'm sure there are many more great ideas that could be thrown in, I was mainly using it as an exercise to practise user interface design. Perhaps making the profile pages more personable and adding more character to the whole site. Give us fans a reason to come back time and time again other than just to check loyalty points, buy tickets and check fixtures.
Very nice. Looks like a hybrid of the Manchester City site (which is probably the best in PL) and default Football Manager skin.
Spooky...you have far too much time on your hands!!
Well done Indy.
Much more engaging than the real OS. As someone said – especially the player profiles.
The only thing I think is better on the OS is the custom-made typeface. Also, your letterspacing is too tight and uneven. (Sorry to nitpick.)
That is really lovely work!
@frontwheel I actually don't agree re letterspacing - in part because you can't really tell, at least on the body text. And I personally always lean towards tight kerning for headlines etc.
now that i think about it, unless im buying a ticket, i rarely visit the official website.
i may pop on now and again if im really bored but in terms of news, its extremely dull.
i guess that's because its an official outlet and everything said constitutes an official statement but in all honesty, does anyone here actually frequent the official site?
used the word 'official' a bit too much for my liking in that last bit
@ Turnpike (and Indy):
It's the headings I'm on about. Kerning ain't about making it all tight, it's about evenness of pos/neg space. The straight-sided characters need more space either side to compensate for combinations like TO and TT, as it is it looks like:
T O T TENH A M
Excuse the exaggeration, no other way to show it in plain text. :-)
Anyway, that's just a minor gripe from a professional typographer of 20 years, I don't want to sound like a bitch, I really like the layout otherwise.
Have a look at typography.com, which is the website of the designers of Gotham, the beautiful typeface which Indy has chosen. You'll see how they treat the inter-character-spacing, and hopefully see how good it can look.
I'd also love to see the same layouts with the Spurs typeface used. Even though I adore Gotham, I think it's better to use a custom typeface, which is "owned" by and in turn enforces the Spurs brand look. As wonderful a typeface as Gotham is, I've used it twice today on two different brands, so it is starting to be overused, in the same way as Bliss in the zeros and Meta in the nineties.
Sorry if I've nerded you to sleep. I'm only interested in type, Tottenham, titties and twat.
@koume2:
I don't think many of us look at the OS apart from ticket buying and maybe when newsnow links to travel updates or fixture changes. That's the problem. The player info pages are utter, that's why it's nice to see Indy's work.
Actually, I think Indy should send a cheeky email to Levy. You never know, he might reply with a job offer.
Very nice. Current site blows. I tried to purchase an international supporters membership in my long quest to get loyalty points for one day getting a ticket to a game and traveling to WHL but it never worked. Not that that has anything to do with design....but I'm finding it hard to complain about anything these days......3rd with game in hand!
@frontwheel
Thanks mate, appreciate the kind words. Absolutely agree with you on the typography with regards to letter spacing. I've not done anything with the kerning here, literally just left the default, so can completely understand your gripe! I wonder if the club will continue with the same custom font made by Dalton Maag on the new site
"me no like batman font"
Lovely work lads, all credit to you- hope the club take on some of the format- and you get some credit for your hard work!
arsenal supporting colleague praising the arsenal youngsters for only losing by one goal to a strong city team.
pretending like i care.
i actually watched the game yesterday, thought both sides were rubbish and actually nodded off out of boredom.
and, how about this... another mate of mine, also a red, actually admitted to enjoying watching spurs play as we were an exciting and rather likeable bunch - adebayor aside, that boy is seriously loathed by them lot.
Other comments have said it already but this would be a huge improvement on the existing site, which is too bitty and broken up visually, with old fashioned navigation.
I hope you get a response from the club as we need a site that matches what we are doing on the pitch: slick and successful while being accessible.
COYS!
rumours about anelka starting to increase
hmmmmm, not to sure about this one
always liked him but maybe a bit passed it?
interesting...
*past it