For comparison, here is the old, pre-redesign colr.org.

This redesign process started with 2 lists:

What sucks?

• Search results show matching schemes below matching colors. Requires much vertical scrolling.
• Bad balance. The left column can be huge (all those search results). The right column is mostly empty (edit color + edit scheme).
• The image load interface sucks.
• Color swatches look crappy in IE.
• When you click on a color or scheme to do anything (even add a tag!), the focus changes to the right side of the page (where the edit controls are)
• Colors and schemes can only appear once (display elements use the color hexcode or scheme id as a unique identifier. That was a bad decision.
• When you create a color scheme from an image, mousing over the scheme colors causes the image pixels to highlight. Pretty neat, but could be better.

What's missing?

• There's no way to add favorites. Kind of like how colorschemer.com does

Solutions:

• Colors on left, schemes on right.
• Move the "edit color" and "edit scheme" blocks into a horizontal area below the title area.
• Break the "messages" div into two separate ones (one for colors and schemes). Also make it position:absolute so it doesn't cause the page to jerk around.
• Not much to be done with the image loading interface. Try to tighten it up a bit, and add a green arrow.
• Add favorites! Doesn't take much - these are only stored in a cookie, not server-side. Nice.
• Update some of the javascript object and rendering code so it's easy for the same color to exist in multiple places on the page. When one updates, all the copies do too. Sweeeeeeeeet.
• Add CSS hacks for IE. Complain bitterly.

Results

• I think it's cleaner and easier.
• The design packs more information into the same space.
• It may actually be cluttered - we'll see how the rate of new tags/colors/schemes changes.

That's all, thanks for reading!

questions, comments, suggestions.