Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property goes BETA!

After months of hard work, the BETA version of Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property is finally alive and kicking!


What is Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property?
"Malaysia Most Wanted Property will provide the most comprehensive information to help property buyers find their ideal properties"

Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property is to help property buyers to find and decide on their ideal property (for home or investment) . MMW Property is a property information/classifieds service that provides a simple yet powerful searching to help you find the property; and a property research house to offer useful information and data analysis to help you decide on its worth and value. Buyers could expect useful information such as price comparison, market value, reputation index, location analysis, community reviews and etc to reinforce your buying decision. We provide where market alternatives fail to deliver, and we are focused to reduce your pain and solve your headaches in finding what you need.

What is the BETA version offering?
The current BETA version offers a simple yet powerful searching for new property development projects. You could search by property type, price, location, project name, developer name and etc.

At the current moment, we offer limited but nevertheless useful information to help you understand the developer’s offering better. Besides the basic information (Price, Floor Space, Product Type, etc), we offers:
  • Project features such as Facility, Interior, Landscape, Accessibility and Landmark
  • Images of Map, Area View, Building, Interior, Floor Plan and Others
  • Links of Property Review, Archive, News, Forum, Resources and etc
  • Developer’s Information
What could we expect within the next month?
We would continue to enhance on the new property development projects’ database in terms of quality and quantity, and focus on providing new features such as location analysis, public/community review and developers’ profile/portfolio/reputation index.

What would MMW Property be in the long term?
We shall provide online property information and classifieds service, and become a resourceful property data banks and research house. Our main objective is to help property buyers to find their ideal property. Besides that, we offer data analysis to aid property valuation (such as price comparison & history, rental yield, growth rate, location growth and value comparison, etc) and value added information to ease purchase decision (independent review, amenities, map, etc). We would offer property market research & analysis, while focus on simple and effective searching.

How is MMW Property different from other market alternatives?
Besides our unique and strategic offerings mentioned earlier, we are buyer centric. Everything we do, we do it to help property buyers find and decide on their ideal property.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Logo is Sweet too

Gathering opinion for logo design is not easy, as every had very different opinions. Thus, I have to be selective and bias towards my preferences, logicality and my tiny bits of design knowledge.

Khim says:
You managed to emphasis the product name but try not emphasis brand name as well, you will make people confuse what "message" you trying to bring out

I agree with her, you can only emphasize on one thing in logo design. Gotto make "Malaysia Most Wanted" simpler.

Mich preferred a one line horizontal design, rather than top and bottom layer. This design is quite technically challenging, as “Malaysia Most Wanted Property” is a pretty long phrase.

MasterMind prefers less variation is size and colour, but I like the catchiness of “Property”.

Mei Ru said “Malaysia Most Wanted” font look a bit “playful”. I kinda agree with her, as I want “Property” to be lively and colourful but “Malaysia Most Wanted” to be more "classic" with personality.

Tang wants to focus on brand name rather than product time. This could be true, but perhaps not for my case. At this moment, “Malaysia Most Wanted” brand had no value, and it doesn’t reflect the functionality of the site (nor I have the budget to market the brand name). “Property” on the other hand is our current main service and should be emphasised. At least to let people know what am I offering them.

I had made some changes to the design. “Malaysia Most Wanted” and “Property” shall be of the same width, to have a more box solid feel. The design of “Property” shall remain unchanged.


This is quite a normal and safe font, yet round and kinda cute. I shall use Black Colour as it is classic. I shall not used shades or multiple colour, as “Malaysia Most Wanted” shall be simple and “Property” should be catchy. Pillow Emboss effect is used to create an “On the Ground” effect.


This is a simple design with attitude, no shades and no effect. It seems slim and wild.


This is dark brown with Emboss effect to make it stand out. It is solid with character.


This is another plain vanilla black with no effect, and the font by itself is strong enough. It kinda gives the feelings of creativity and strength.

These designs seem to be a combination of simplicity and liveliness. Which one do you like?

Monday, April 17, 2006

Logo is Sweet


This is initial Logo for MMW Property. Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) is the brand name, while Property is the product name. This design is simple and clear, but perhaps a bit too dull.


After 3 months into development, I believe it is time to design to a catchier logo. Thus came the classic Malaysia Most Wanted theme coupled with the colourful Property (inspired by Google style), and Mei Ru helps me to pick up the fonts. Kenny mentioned that MMW’s font seems a bit Matrix look alike, and I kinda agreed. He claims the entire design is too messy, which might be true. Wynn also commented the classic black and white MMW does not match the colourful Property. The reason for this is to create a sense of visual separation of the brand name from the product name. Making them same themed or almost same colour seems kinda messy, any good suggestion?


After some discussion with Kenny, I decide to shrink MMW and use a less complex font. I reduce the colour of Property to 3 colours only (the previous design had 3 colours too, but with a slight variation).

I am still not quite satisfied with this. Any more idea?

Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property

"Malaysia Most Wanted Property will be an online property classifieds and research house to provide the most comprehensive information for property buyers find their ideal properties"

Property shall be the pioneer product of Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW), and will be launched initially as BETA and new features shall be rolled out by stages.

Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property is to help property buyers to find and decide on their ideal property (for home or investment) . MMW Property is a property information/classifieds service that provides a simple yet powerful searching to help you find the property; and a property research house to offer useful information and data analysis to help you decide on its worth and value. Buyers could expect useful information such as price comparison, market value, reputation index, location analysis, community reviews and etc to reinforce your buying decision. We provide where market alternatives fail to deliver, and we are focused to reduce your pain and solve your headaches in finding what you need.

The initial focus of MMW Property shall be on archival of new property launches, and this information shall be easily searchable using our intuitive search interface. We are like the Google of Property in Malaysia. We help you find your dream property, and will try our best to provide as much useful information as possible about your dream property (the featured information shall be rolled out in stages).

MMW Property shall include all property classifieds (rental and sale) of old and new properties in the near future.

Malaysia Most Wanted

"Malaysia Most Wanted will be an online service to provide the Most Wanted information in Malaysia, in a useful and easy to use manner"

Malaysia Most Wanted (www.malaysiamostwanted.com) is Malaysia brand name for all about the most wanted things in Malaysia, from Property to Food to Travel. It is a collection of information and resources (blog, web site, forum, etc) of local contents which are archived with contributions from the community, and preferably following some Web 2.0 mantra in concept and design.

Malaysia Most Wanted will archive public internet resources, provide simple yet powerful searching, be community-focused, equipped with simplicity and usability in design. We strive for continuous innovation and pain solving. If we manage to solve your pain by providing what your desired, then we should be on the right track.

The 1st product launch for Malaysia Most Wanted shall be on Property. The BETA version shall be around the corner soon.