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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Week 3 - Part 2 - My Two Favorite Sites Examined



Blog Post: Add the url of two websites you use or visit frequently.
Discuss: 
  1. Why are they effective? 
  2. What specific principles of good design do they include and why?
  3. What makes you come back again?
  4. What could be improved?

My first choice and enjoyed the most is Amazon.com

First, they are effective mostly due to their service and prices.  That is why I go there.  As far as the site development, it is a little cluttered, but just on the brink.  I like that it opens with a larger central graphic/offer.  It is easy to find information from the top and left listings.  Along the bottom are more offers, but they are not cut off at the bottom, you don’t have to scroll to see more, but it is like, it makes you want to scroll to see what’s there.  The only improvement I would like to see is a bit more color, I have a thing for too much white, perhaps just slightly different hues to highlight different menus/sections of the pages.

Next would be Ebay

Ebay has moved to a kind of pinterest look.  Like post it notes all down the page.  They have some different menu sections down the left side of page that I really didn’t notice till I looked around the page.  These I think need the same thing Amazon does for their various menus; borders of some kind or slightly different hues but the all-white, kind of looks cluttered.  I would also put a divider bar between where the post it notes starts and the two graphical sections above them.  A problem I see is that I like compartments.  Easily identifiable sections of the page I can go to for what I know I want.  The page has a flow to it granted, but it only works for me slightly…

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