Thursday, October 11, 2012

Good and Bad Assignment


Good and Bad Assignment
Good Design

Design features:
Text: Summarize the qualities of the use of type that make a website successful.                                    
The site’s background won’t interrupt the text; the text should be in a proper size for people to read, and the information need to be perfectly clear. Narrow down the columns of text than in a book to make people feel more confortable to read on the screen.

Navigation: Summarize the qualities of the navigation that make a website successful.
It would be better to have an index or site map. Because navigation buttons are the guides for the visitor, so they has to be easy to understand and use, and consistent throughout web site

Links: Summarize the qualities of the links, and their behavior that make a website successful.
The link colors needs to match the page colors, and underlined to be instantly clear to the visitor.

Graphics: Summarize the use of Graphics, vector and raster, that make a website successful.
The animated graphic will turn off by themselves. All the buttons on the web page should not to big and dorky, every graphic needs an alt label, and each graphic link has a matching text link. And make sure the graphics and backgrounds are using browser-safe colors.

General Design: Summarize the aspects of the overall design that make a website successful.
All the web pages are the same style; there are repetitive elements that carry throughout the pages. The first page and home page fit into 800 x 600 pixel space, except that, all of the other pages have the immediate visual impact within 800 x 600 pixels. And use the graphic elements like photos, subheads, and pull quotes to break up large areas of text. And all the pages need to download quickly.

Notes:
Basically make it look good. If it looks niece, people tend to give it more value. And don’t overdo the graphic content, if large images will slow page loading.
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Summarize the qualities that make a site miss the boat.


Bad Design>>>
Design features:
Text: Summarize the qualities of the use of type that make a website unsuccessful.                                
Text is too small for victors to read and poor organized. Paragraphs of type in all caps, bold, and italic; or all at once. Underlined the non-link text.


Navigation: Summarize the qualities of the navigation that make a website unsuccessful.
Not clear or over complex. Too many frames on the web page. And unnecessary scroll bars in fames. There are no links back to where they came from, no identification. And don’t explain what the useless page titles are about.

Links: Summarize the qualities of the links, and their behavior that make a website unsuccessful.
Boring default blue links. Dead links. Blue link border around graphics. Links are not clear about where they will lead the visitor. Links are not underlined.

Graphics: Summarize the use of Graphics, vector and raster, that make a website successful.
Overdo graphic content. No alt labels. Images are too big to load. Meaningless graphics and missing graphics. Thumbnail images that are nearly as large as the full-sized images they link to.

General Design: Summarize the aspects of the overall design that make a website successful.
Home page does not fit within 800 x 600 pixels. There is no focal point on the page. Too many focal points on the page. Dorky navigation buttons. Lack of contrast.         


Notes:
Don’t put junks such as counters on pages, junky advertising, too many little pictures on the page on the web site. Don’t overdo the multimedia.



Example of a Poorly Designed Site


URL of a Poorly Designed Site: http://www.elleuk.com

Design features:
Text: Summarize the qualities of the use of type that make this site unsuccessful.                                   
Some of the text are too small to read on screen. Poor organized.



Navigation: Summarize the qualities of the navigation that make this site unsuccessful.
The navigation buttons are clear.


Links: Summarize the qualities of the links, and their behavior that make this site unsuccessful.
The links are not clear.


Graphics: Summarize the use of Graphics, both vector and raster, which make this site unsuccessful.
Too many graphics on the home page. No focal points.       


General Design: Summarize the aspects of the overall design that make this site unsuccessful.
Too many multimedia. Got distract by the junk advertisement.         

Describe the purpose of this site in the notes. (Include whether it was easy to determine the purpose – why or why not?)

Notes:
it is a little bit confuse to me to determine the purpose of this website. The home page has too many focal points which looks messy. The advertisements on the web page are too big.


Examples of a Well Designed Site #1

URL of site #1: http://www.style.com
Design features:
Text: Summarize the qualities of the use of type that make this site successful.                                       
The text is in a proper size, and matches the background.



Navigation: Summarize the qualities of the navigation that make this site successful.
Navigation bars and buttons are clear and easy to understand. And there is an site map to help us to find what we are looking for.



Links: Summarize the qualities of the links, and their behavior that make this site successful.
The links are all underlines and clear



Graphics: Summarize the use of Graphics, vector and raster, which make this site successful.
All the graphics are loading fast. And there are not too many images on the homepage. Every graphic link has a matching text link.         

General Design: Summarize the aspects of the overall design that make this site successful.
The web site looks good! The massages on the home page are very clear, and the navigation bars are easy to understand.     

Describe the purpose of this site in the notes. (Include whether it was easy to determine the purpose – why or why not?)

Notes:
This web site is easy to determine its purpose. It looks good and attractive in general. The visitors can tell that this is a source of fashion news and global fashion community.



Examples of a Well Designed Site #2


URL of site #2: http://www.vogue.com

Design features:
Text: Summarize the qualities of the use of type that make this site successful.                                       
All the text is large enough for visitors to read. text in good color combination.

Navigation: Summarize the qualities of the navigation that make this site successful.
This website has good site-wide navigation. Navigation buttons are easy to find and well described. And the text of a button is pretty clear as to where it’s taking me.

Links: Summarize the qualities of the links, and their behavior that make this site successful.
The links are underlined, and matches the page color as well.

Graphics: Summarize the use of Graphics, vector and raster, which make this site successful.
The buttons are simple and chic. All the multimedia loaded fast. And there are not too many of them, so the home page is very clean.     

General Design: Summarize the aspects of the overall design that make this site successful.
A very good organized web site. No popups to annoy visitors. Home page looks attractive, and load fast.         

Describe the purpose of this site in the notes. (Include whether it was easy to determine the purpose – why or why not?)

Notes:
The speedy pages are very important. And use appropriate colors. Don’t make the pages too long.

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