Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Don't Make Me Think

I am going to get some screengrabs of websites and comment on the purpose of the site, what they want you to do and how obvious the naviagtion is. On the scale 10 is being obvious, 1 being complete utter thinking.

Google Homepage
To be a worldwide broswer in all interactive medias including, picture, websites, videos and maps.
They want you to look for whatever intresting item you require
10/10
The links are very obvious because they are in blue and are higlighted, their is a lot of white space which allows it to see the text. The search bar is obvious. Its all obvious but not very creative.

Stephenson College Home Page
For people who need to find out certain information whether its now or in the future.
They want you to find certain information that you need.
5/10
A lot of requires you to think for a second and because theirs no obvious colour code pattern obvious link I would guess a lot of the time. Also their are far too many links for a website on the primary function. For example is says "Aditional links" that it self could be a link which links to those links. So its not that accesible.