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Exploring / NoonFox: Homepage Directions / v7
Exploration · 6 September 2026

Simplify: three ways

The live noonfox.com had grown to nine sections, two forms, a feature grid, eleven questions and a row of promises that nobody was asking for. Three homepages that keep only what a visitor values, in one order, with the app treated as live on the App Store.

1What it doesNever lose anything again. The promise, a phone, the App Store badge.
2How it worksSnap, named, found. Quick and easy, three short beats.
3Family ShareOne person snaps, everyone finds it.
4The momentsKeys, boxes, the storage unit, expiring passports, the inhaler, the adjuster.

What all three drop from the live site: the twelve-feature grid, the eleven-question FAQ, the "first 60 seconds" section, the proof chips (never sold, no hardware, built by one person), the mission band, the team card, the launch-list forms and the pre-launch status line. What all three add: the official App Store badge, linked, in the header, the hero and the close.

Option A rendered top to bottom: a two-column hero with the phone, three step cards, a Family Share band, six moment cards, the closing badge.
Option A

Four beats and nothing else

One screen per beat. The hero is the promise beside the phone; how it works is three cards with one line each; Family Share is one sentence and the search card; the moments are a six-card grid. About a third of the live page's length.

Wins: the shortest read. A busy parent gets all four beats in under a minute and never scrolls past anything they do not need.
Loses: the least emotional. The moments are the smallest they can be, so the page argues with the head more than the gut.
Option B rendered top to bottom: a centred headline, then five numbered story beats alternating cream and sand, a sideways strip of six moments, the closing badge.
Option B

One scroll, one story

The page is the product demo told slowly: you snap, it names everything, you ask, found, and then everyone at home can ask. Big numerals, alternating cream and sand bands, one phone per beat. The moments are a sideways strip at the end.

Wins: the most cinematic and the easiest to feel. Every beat is one idea, so nothing competes for attention.
Loses: the longest scroll to reach the moments, and a sideways strip is easy to miss on desktop.
Option C rendered top to bottom: a centred hero with the badge, a one-line how it works pill and two phones, a Family Share band, then eight alternating photo and text rows, the closing badge.
Option C

The moments carry the page

Promise, badge and a one-line how it works inside the hero, Family Share as one band, and then the page is the use cases: eight alternating rows of a real photo and one sentence. The reader finds their own life somewhere in the list.

Wins: the most persuasive for a stranger who does not yet know they have the problem. Each row is a doorway.
Loses: the longest page of the three, and how it works is compressed to a pill some readers will skip.
Side by side

The same four beats, weighted three ways

ABC
Sections574, but the fourth is eight rows
Words on the pageabout 330about 300about 520
Desktop scrollabout 3,600 pxabout 4,900 pxabout 6,000 px
Phone scroll (390 px)about 4,150 pxabout 4,600 pxabout 5,900 px
Where the demo livesin the hero, one phoneas the spine, one phone per beatin the hero, two phones
How it worksthree cardsfour story beatsone pill of three words
Family Sharea band with the search cardbeat five, two phonesone band, one result card
The momentssix cardssix tiles, sidewayseight rows
Kept from the last round

What did not change, on purpose

Built for the phone first. Each option carries its own phone layout: the badge in a sticky bottom bar, the hero phone sized so the promise, the badge and the product share the first screen, compact step rows, and the moments as photo-and-line rows rather than tall cards. All three were reviewed at a real 390 px width, top to bottom.

Every claim stays inside what ships: NoonFox flags an expiring passport, it never reminds; Family Share is one group where everyone can find and edit; the price is $3.95 a month, locked forever, per person. The photos are the same real-mess scenes, the fox waves once at the close, and the voice stays short and warm. The consent form, the launch list and the pre-launch status line are gone because the brief is a live app; when the site switches over, the badge links to the real listing and nothing else has to move.

Where the CMO lands. Option A for launch week, because the first job of the page is to convert a visitor who arrived from a search or a creator's post, and A gets them to the badge fastest with the product in view. Option C's rows are the better long-term page once traffic is coming from many different lives, and its rows are the natural home for each future custom product page.

Two things to decide by note: whether "For iPhone ยท iOS 26 and later" belongs under the badge or only in the store, and whether the six moments in A and B should be the same six as C's first six (they are today).