This type of content is gold. It's great to do walkthroughs of new features and products but so few people sit down and discuss details and basics and what separates good design from bad design. I wish I had you when I was first starting out. Would have saved me some hurdles.
That turned out really well. Do you think it'd be better to have a CTA button on the hero section, considering they have a "book now" section, but it's placed way further down the page?
This was so intrersting to watch. You made it look more appealing to anyone going to the page. The Nigerian Governmet really needs to invest in good designs for their websites in general. Spoken from the perspective of a Nigerian web designer
Almost perfect! At 17:39 if you look at he bottom image, the one with the 4 travelers, I would have scaled it down a little so that the guy on the right also kinda aligns with the "Book now" box, like the first woman does. Now, with the logo in the bottom right too, it feels a little too crowded.
it was an honor to watch you redesign this. each of the tips you gave were so insightful and helpful. all of your videos have so many golden nuggets its crazy!
Awesome way to educate; the before vs after / bad vs. good is excellent. The only thing I’d still change is the section headers. I’d dump the green bars and make the text bigger.
Amazing one 💯, loved the way you redesigned it so seamlessly. The final results were just incredible ! Looking forward to more such videos from a great teacher
Super impressive! I shudder to think that amateur designers for a major concern can be given a website project of such importance and ..... well, the results speak for themselves.... ==> Your quick re-design of this layout is simple proof that trying to cut corners due to corruption or favouritism cannot justify the replacement of an expert in his/her field. Something to consider for all the chancers and wannabes out there... the joke is on you...
Photoshop Crop tip, nowadays you can set it to Generative Expand straight away (no need to do 2 steps; first crop and then select to apply generative fill)
The layout is nice, but you're not thinking about some major key flaws. The hero may look nice but your hero text is not going to be easily created in development unless you know a css mastermind, and exporting that image with the text as part of the image is a major design flaw. Your hero text needs to be crawlable by search engines, and readable by screen readers. You can fix this by aligning the text left in the hero instead of your embedded look. Your white on orange is also not accessible, one of your first things you should address are low contrast interactive elements like these to create a more accessible user experience. Start thinking about your designs a bit more holistically and from the atomic elements, not from the top to the bottom, and you'll create more cohesive and professional designs as you continue.
You could export the train as transparent image with the blue gradient (for the text) being behind it on the same PNG, right 0. (z-index: 2, position: relative) Behind it the text with (z-index: 1, position: relative) And than the background behind it with background-image and background-size: cover on the relative container which includes the train and text. Or you use an img and position absolute, object fit if you prefer it over background-image. The background just needs to have the same size as the train, because then the aspect ratio will always be the same and you don't have to use media queries for paddings. What is your problem with the text? I never worked with Figma, but I guess you will also get a mockup from the designer (maybe even a link like in XD) and also the source images. The point of the mockup isn't to copy and past images from it, but to know how it should look like.
Great video, thank you! I’d love it if you could share the optimal Photoshop resolution and best practices for working with large images like the one in the video to avoid any pixelation. Also, what’s the best way to handle type for the web? Can text be added during the Photoshop stage while maintaining its crispness?
That was very well done! And the video length was great as well! Simple and effective! Also could you list the web tools you used, please and thank you :) I never heard of Midjourney “alpha” before
This is great - but that banner will need to be a single image. So it looks good in Figma or in a PDF brochure, but is not practical for a real website that must be mobile friendly?
@@kunallangoo9184 It doesn't even look that good tbh, too blocky, like those subheaders, big green cards, that awkward "book now" white block, and don't get me started with the colors that he didn't even bother to improve upon. The design is better than the previous but that's all, I feel bad for the people here thinking this is good shi cuz they're getting scammed into thinking they're learning from a designer, he's more of a content creator than he is a designer.
Great video overall with lots of valuable information. I would add though, that it's important to check with client and the photographer and get approvals for making any changes to logos and photographs. Photographers can be very particular about this and it can cause a lot of issues if these images are being licensed and not bought outright. It's also not great advice to suggest just changing the logo, and a bit of an easy way out. In 99% of cases you won't be able to change it at all, so would be more useful to show how to actually fix the design using a difficult logo.
Hmm do you think about how to build this as a web developer? Those layers with the train look nice, but in order to have the slider in the back and have the image in the front change with the background image, then staying in the right postition for mobile view is quite tricky 😅
@5:22 you say "just with tools that are available to all of you". Is there a free workaround to generative fill in photoshop or do i need to buy a adobe subscription for this technique to work? Thank you very much for this amazing video.
This is exactly the part where I stopped the video having the same thought! I have affinity designer and photo which is way cheaper and no subscription needed but I don't know if there is a feature like this.
I can 100% confirm that this website isn't mobile responsive. my school website is so bad I have to use desktop mode on mobile to click anything, most Nigerian websites are that bad
I have a question, for the objects, did you make them relative or absolute? and in the real world of UI design do you actually need everything to be responsive? Would love a reply on this because I'm a bit confused
Excellent video ! I just found that png can be copied from photoshop to figma. I retried on the windows with ps cc 2020 but it also exports pngs with white background. How do i get with transparent ?
Your design is very well thought, but I think they could have obtained a better result, even without changing much of the elements like you did. Regarding the quality of the train image, my thought is that probably they made it poor through JPEG compression, in order to be loaded fast on slow connections. My proposal is that the overlay could have been even left, if the covered section was shorter and if they made the word Affordable giant and sticked on the white section.
As a seasoned web developer, I see that while your aesthetic enhancements are appealing, they merely mask the fundamental flaws. The navigation's excessive dropdowns are unnecessary. Additionally, the logo's use of a PNG file limits its adjustability compared to an AI/SVG format. I understand your intentions, but this instance is not exemplary. The entire layout requires a revamp, not just superficial changes. It necessitates more impactful sections and improved SEO strategies. Feel free to message me; I can demonstrate how I've transformed similar sites into lucrative ventures through intelligent responsive design and effective SEO practices.
It's been three months and the actual website still look the same. No changes at all. I guess they didn't see this video 🤣 btw great redesign good job!
I'm a Nigerian, You're absolutely right. Most of the government websites looks as like it was designed by a primary school child. You'd be surprised if you find out the budget of this website.
i am a nigerian, and you absolutely nailed this. Always a great time watching you do these lectures
These are amazing!
I swear it awesome
Glad you like them!
I'm Nigerian too. Nice work bro
Ajeh
As a web designer from Nigeria, I am disgusted by government agencies website and designs.
You did a fantastic job!
This type of content is gold.
It's great to do walkthroughs of new features and products but so few people sit down and discuss details and basics and what separates good design from bad design.
I wish I had you when I was first starting out. Would have saved me some hurdles.
As a Nigerian watching this, you really nailed it. So much value!
Thanks! 🇳🇬
I’m always blown away when I not only see the final result of a professional like you but also get to see how you do it. You’re truly a pro!
That turned out really well. Do you think it'd be better to have a CTA button on the hero section, considering they have a "book now" section, but it's placed way further down the page?
The Nigerian Government needs to pay you for this.
So on point. The new design makes a huge difference even with the little changes. Phewww our Nigerian railway website just got a facelift 😊
Thanks
I am also a web design agency owner from Nigeria. This is lovely
This was so intrersting to watch. You made it look more appealing to anyone going to the page. The Nigerian Governmet really needs to invest in good designs for their websites in general. Spoken from the perspective of a Nigerian web designer
My country people, I use wordpress but I am a big fan of Ran Segall
Yes ooo
Same here
What a worthy piece of redesign and improved user experience. 👏👏👏
Thank you very much for creating and sharing such valuable content.
Great video, thank you w great ideas.
(One tiny thing: you can't update/change a company logo just because a cleaner website design)
Omg, I'm in love with our performance. Really good job!!!.
As a designer, I am so impressed with this.
It's funny how jobs like this never go to the professionals.
Great rework by the way 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Loved the video, but one thing I would also change up is the orange CTAs, you can't read them at all from a bit further distance
Almost perfect! At 17:39 if you look at he bottom image, the one with the 4 travelers, I would have scaled it down a little so that the guy on the right also kinda aligns with the "Book now" box, like the first woman does. Now, with the logo in the bottom right too, it feels a little too crowded.
it was an honor to watch you redesign this. each of the tips you gave were so insightful and helpful. all of your videos have so many golden nuggets its crazy!
Thanks Stevie!
love it, by far the best teacher
Great content! Thank you for the side-by-side comparison. It really helps a lot.
Bro design is so beautiful, I swear I’m going to become an amazing designer like you, so inspiring watching this, and beautiful as well!
You can do it!
Awesome way to educate; the before vs after / bad vs. good is excellent. The only thing I’d still change is the section headers. I’d dump the green bars and make the text bigger.
This is gold! Thank you. I learnt some interesting concepts
Glad to hear it was helpful!
I'm a Nigerian and the redesign is so good.. This is better honestly
Amazing one 💯, loved the way you redesigned it so seamlessly. The final results were just incredible !
Looking forward to more such videos from a great teacher
Thanks!
Super impressive! I shudder to think that amateur designers for a major concern can be given a website project of such importance and ..... well, the results speak for themselves.... ==> Your quick re-design of this layout is simple proof that trying to cut corners due to corruption or favouritism cannot justify the replacement of an expert in his/her field. Something to consider for all the chancers and wannabes out there... the joke is on you...
Photoshop Crop tip, nowadays you can set it to Generative Expand straight away (no need to do 2 steps; first crop and then select to apply generative fill)
The layout is nice, but you're not thinking about some major key flaws. The hero may look nice but your hero text is not going to be easily created in development unless you know a css mastermind, and exporting that image with the text as part of the image is a major design flaw. Your hero text needs to be crawlable by search engines, and readable by screen readers. You can fix this by aligning the text left in the hero instead of your embedded look. Your white on orange is also not accessible, one of your first things you should address are low contrast interactive elements like these to create a more accessible user experience. Start thinking about your designs a bit more holistically and from the atomic elements, not from the top to the bottom, and you'll create more cohesive and professional designs as you continue.
That's the difference between a UX/UI Designer who can also be a web designer and a designer focused only on UI. Great point!
You could export the train as transparent image with the blue gradient (for the text) being behind it on the same PNG, right 0. (z-index: 2, position: relative)
Behind it the text with (z-index: 1, position: relative)
And than the background behind it with background-image and background-size: cover on the relative container which includes the train and text. Or you use an img and position absolute, object fit if you prefer it over background-image.
The background just needs to have the same size as the train, because then the aspect ratio will always be the same and you don't have to use media queries for paddings.
What is your problem with the text? I never worked with Figma, but I guess you will also get a mockup from the designer (maybe even a link like in XD) and also the source images. The point of the mockup isn't to copy and past images from it, but to know how it should look like.
Keren sih abang ini bener bener profesional designer. Simple thing but make big impact! Menyala abangkuuu!
Great video, thank you! I’d love it if you could share the optimal Photoshop resolution and best practices for working with large images like the one in the video to avoid any pixelation. Also, what’s the best way to handle type for the web? Can text be added during the Photoshop stage while maintaining its crispness?
Finally, flux academy did something related to my country
W fr man🔥❤️
This is fascinating thank you. Learning a lot of design concepts - im more into coding but want to be good enough at prototyping
Great stuff! Loved the redesign process and innovations.
Incredible redesign! Thank you Ran for sharing your invaluable thought process!
I'm not very convinced with the final hero image, I think it need a little bit of balancing the highlights and whites, but it's a big improvement.
You are such a genius. Great idea. I’m learning so much from your channel. Thanks
Thanks, happy to hear that!
That was very well done! And the video length was great as well! Simple and effective! Also could you list the web tools you used, please and thank you :) I never heard of Midjourney “alpha” before
Wow cracking job mate. You should definitely bring more content like this. Pure Gold!
Thanks!
we learn so much from this video, thanks Ran's
Great video!
Thanks a lot for all the information and practises you showcased, keep up the good work!
This is great - but that banner will need to be a single image. So it looks good in Figma or in a PDF brochure, but is not practical for a real website that must be mobile friendly?
It's a great design. The final redesign is splendid
Can you please show how it will look in different screen sizes (Responsive). It will be helpful.
Agreed… You can do anything in Figma. But how do you make that hero practical for all breakpoints?
@@itsmikemcdonnell Correct. I always see youtubers making cool looking designs for the web but they never show how it will look on mobile.
@@kunallangoo9184 Yet, in their videos, they'll explain how the majority of their website users will be using mobile devices!
@@kunallangoo9184 It doesn't even look that good tbh, too blocky, like those subheaders, big green cards, that awkward "book now" white block, and don't get me started with the colors that he didn't even bother to improve upon. The design is better than the previous but that's all, I feel bad for the people here thinking this is good shi cuz they're getting scammed into thinking they're learning from a designer, he's more of a content creator than he is a designer.
Maybe you can redesign yours and show us how it looks. @@feelcollins4358
Excellent turned out very well ❤
Great video overall with lots of valuable information. I would add though, that it's important to check with client and the photographer and get approvals for making any changes to logos and photographs. Photographers can be very particular about this and it can cause a lot of issues if these images are being licensed and not bought outright. It's also not great advice to suggest just changing the logo, and a bit of an easy way out. In 99% of cases you won't be able to change it at all, so would be more useful to show how to actually fix the design using a difficult logo.
Thanks for the thoughtful notes
Love from Nigeria 🇳🇬
The difference is experience and thinking
You are a magician! It is so good, almost disheartening - will I ever be able to grow to this level???
Absolutely you can!
i am so nigerian and this video is absolutely amazing
Excellent.. thanks for sharing!
Hmm do you think about how to build this as a web developer? Those layers with the train look nice, but in order to have the slider in the back and have the image in the front change with the background image, then staying in the right postition for mobile view is quite tricky 😅
Can you please make a video how we can design this same design in elementor
@5:22 you say "just with tools that are available to all of you". Is there a free workaround to generative fill in photoshop or do i need to buy a adobe subscription for this technique to work? Thank you very much for this amazing video.
This is exactly the part where I stopped the video having the same thought! I have affinity designer and photo which is way cheaper and no subscription needed but I don't know if there is a feature like this.
I can 100% confirm that this website isn't mobile responsive.
my school website is so bad I have to use desktop mode on mobile to click anything, most Nigerian websites are that bad
Amazing redesign tutorial, Ran! You're a great teacher!✨✨
Appreciate it
I have a question, for the objects, did you make them relative or absolute? and in the real world of UI design do you actually need everything to be responsive? Would love a reply on this because I'm a bit confused
probably my favourite type of video, super useful stuff
thanks a lot
You nailed it. Our services section could have been better. Missed button to box size ratio ?
awesome demonstration!!!
Thanks! 🙏
nice you just remastered the website
This is very skillful- great video!
Thank you! Cheers!
You need to do more tutorial on how to improve pictures used for the website
Nice video. Designer of this website is lucky one!
Wow... This is really awesome.
Can i get the figma link pls, i want to build this with webflow
Excellent video ! I just found that png can be copied from photoshop to figma. I retried on the windows with ps cc 2020 but it also exports pngs with white background. How do i get with transparent ?
I'm Nigerian and I 💯 agree with your redesign 👍
Love that
at the beginning you used a website to upscale your train image - what is that url? wasit freebit?
oh man, i wish i had your vision :D so good
grreat stuff - are you using the web to figma plugin and with the pro paid features
Loved this video. More of these videos, Ran!
Love this, I hope you do a lot more of these
Your design is very well thought, but I think they could have obtained a better result, even without changing much of the elements like you did. Regarding the quality of the train image, my thought is that probably they made it poor through JPEG compression, in order to be loaded fast on slow connections. My proposal is that the overlay could have been even left, if the covered section was shorter and if they made the word Affordable giant and sticked on the white section.
As a seasoned web developer, I see that while your aesthetic enhancements are appealing, they merely mask the fundamental flaws. The navigation's excessive dropdowns are unnecessary. Additionally, the logo's use of a PNG file limits its adjustability compared to an AI/SVG format.
I understand your intentions, but this instance is not exemplary. The entire layout requires a revamp, not just superficial changes. It necessitates more impactful sections and improved SEO strategies. Feel free to message me; I can demonstrate how I've transformed similar sites into lucrative ventures through intelligent responsive design and effective SEO practices.
This is just 10/10
All great but I do not think you can change the logo, which is a copyright sign. A little too cocky ;)
Why should a web designer change a client's logo which is a key brand element for the seek of make a beautiful website?
Great work sir. Love your videos 😊
i'm thinking in responsive for mobile and the hero picture with the text behind the train, how should it work?
It's been three months and the actual website still look the same. No changes at all. I guess they didn't see this video 🤣 btw great redesign good job!
Brutal difference
Fantastic, congrats ! By the way, how can you accelerate the video of the process and not the video of you and talk about the same thing ?
I'm a Nigerian, You're absolutely right. Most of the government websites looks as like it was designed by a primary school child. You'd be surprised if you find out the budget of this website.
Amazing job 🔥
Love it. Please more videos like this one 😊
Thank you! Will do!
I’m a developer but wish I had your eye and skills
As a Nigerian I can tell you that website costs a couple thousands of dollars. That is how our government move.
Who ask you? Cho cho cho...
You wont know peace for trying to sell your country out for a redesign that still needs a redesign.
How would you code the hero section 😢
This is gold content 😍
Thanks Sergio
Nice. All the edits were done in Photoshop and copy pasted here right?
Thanks brother ❤
Great job!
Simply Awesome Sir
You did alot of justice to this wow❤
Thank you realy i learn more things, but please when you use plugin or website for example as in this video(ai ...) plaese wirte this
what is the name of the image generator tool you use ?
Hello Ran can you share the file with us so we can practice improving websites if you can share just the old design .. thank you
Can you lectures from MYANMAR Website design?
Great video man!
You now create that effect on Hero Page. Good luck with that...