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I like the landing page for Precursor (https://precursorapp.com/home) because it shows off the app's collaborative features in the background (only on desktop) and goes straight from landing page to app without even a page refresh.

It also has a few fancy animated svg illustrations and a well-done effect when you hover over the main cta.



The animations lag behind scrolling though, if you scroll down, they appear just as they scroll by. In my opinion those "popup" additions to websites are very annoying and as implemented here, detrimental to the site.


Precursor designer here. Thanks for the feedback! You're right about the animations. I'll fix those before we launch this week :)


The look and feel is very heavily influenced by Google product page design, e.g. https://wallet.google.com/


I don't really see the connection. Care to elaborate?


Sectioned layout with thin separator lines, white background, lots of padding. Each section alternating between Header/text and Image blocks on left and right.

This is a fairly common layout, but when it's all set in Roboto - Google's primary body font that they developed for the branding purposes - it starts to look like an "over-influence". Except Google's version is more refined and doesn't assume everyone has a 24" monitor.


Thanks for all the info! I'll refine more and make sure everything is working on small screens this week :)




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