My Second Giant Bomb Profile Mockup - All Feedback Appretiated!

I'm back again with my second profile page mockup to show how our profiles might look in the future, take a look:

Click me duder!(right click the image and click view image)

It is more focused on saving space than having new features this time.

Oh and just for the record that's not my review in there it's a friend's, I'm just using it for the mockup he's cool with it.

Main section

Brand new features:

• Profile Banner

  A cool banner to go across the top of our profiles, a size limit could be used to stop people uploading super long banners and breaking the page, it would only use the space already available.
  
  

• Dedicated Activity Feed Page

  The feed takes up a lot of space and not everyone wants it at the top of their profiles, by giving it it's own page it saves space while also allowing it to show more content on it's own page.
  
  

• Currently Playing

  A side-scrolling list to show the main games the user is currently grinding through.
  
  

Changes:

• Blog

  Name changed from "My Blog" to "User's Blog"
  Blogs are now shown in tabs showing the latest 3 blogs, to see the rest you simply click "See all"
  
  

• Lists

  Name changed from "My Lists" to "User's Lists"
  6 lists appear instead of 5 to make use of the empty space.
  "See all" has been added.
  Box art looks crappy shrunk down to the little square icons we have now so I think games should have square icons we can upload to use instead, we already have quality icons for Xbox 360/Arcade games directly from Microsoft! I also think they are a better size, the current ones are too small.
  
  

• Top Contributions

  "See all" has been added.
  
  

• Reviews
  

  Name changed from "My Reviews" to "User's Reviews"
  Reviews are now shown in tabs showing the latest 3 reviews, to see the rest you simply click "See all"

Right section

Brand new features:

• Gamertag

  A Giant Bomb style Xbox Live Gamercard designed by me, all us 360 owners want it ^_^

Changes:

• Friends

  Names changed from "My Friends" to "User's Friends"
  Amount shown reduced from 10 to 8 to save space.
  
  

• Wall

  Amount shown reduced from 9 to 7 to save space.

Great ideas as ever Newten - I like some of the ideas there.

I like the idea of changing things to "user" instead of "my." I'm with TheBeast on the tabs idea, as well as reducing the number of items on the wall and friends list, seems odd. Displaying only the recent review and recent blog and having a "see more" button seems like a better idea to me.

Good mock-up though.

Thanks for the replies guys.

TheBeast said:

• The idea of tabs for variable sized, constantly changing content of the same type seems very odd - tabs should typically be used where they will always be the same and actually change the context of what the user is seeing when clicked - a list of some description would be much more appropriate in these places.

• I definitely agree with your points about having a separate activity feed page.

• Considering development time, why does there need to be a 'Currently Playing' feature when there is already a lists feature? Perhaps being able to tag one of your lists as 'featured' and having it display in the format you propose for 'Currently Playing' would be nice.

• Why reduce the amount of items on the wall/friends list? The page is always going to scroll vertically, so there's no harm in using the space.

"I like the idea of changing things to "user" instead of "my." I'm with TheBeast on the tabs idea, as well as reducing the number of items on the wall and friends list, seems odd. Displaying only the recent review and recent blog and having a "see more" button seems like a better idea to me.

Good mock-up though."

Bump, you put a lot of effort into this.

Thanks Vinchenzo :D

I love what you did with the tabs there. Excellent job. I would love to see our profiles like that. The customizable banners are also sweet. Good job, again!

I like this one much better than your first. I like the tabbed section idea. Very nice.

Also, Summer Glau's ass. I approve.

"I like this one much better than your first. I like the tabbed section idea. Very nice.

Also, Summer Glau's ass. I approve."

I'm suprised nobody has commented on the lists, I thought it was a good improvement.

I like the tabbed blogging. As far as the lists are concerned, I would definitely like to have customizable icons. There's a gaping hole in my profile where Valkyrie Proflie: Lenneth used to be (and then the page got restored, WTF!?).

"I'm suprised nobody has commented on the lists, I thought it was a good improvement.

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"Didn't notice that at first. Yeah, looks cool, though what is it going to be like for Wii/PS2/etc. games?"